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Requirement Changes Are Put Into The Product Backlog
Posted on May 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Image Source: Scott Adams Agile welcomes changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage. Short feedback loops in Agile allow the team to get fast feedback and incorporate changes required by the customer and reduce the possibility of the team developing the wrong product for too long. The […]
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Lean and Agile – Doing more with less
Posted on February 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Have you been in a similar situation as the above Dilbert? Lean and Agile is about doing more with less. Lean and Agile doesn’t focus primarily on cost reduction, but more on strategic alignment around enterprise agility – reducing waste and simplified processes which then could have an impact on cost reductions. Furthermore, for comparable […]
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Managing Defects on Agile Projects
Posted on April 12, 2010 2 Comments
Image Source: Scott Adams This recent Dilbert comic strip reminded me of a situation when a client was raising cosmetic defect as severity 2. It is often not clear what a defect is and at what level to raise it at (despite agreed severity descriptions) as my example above shows. And some defects are raised […]
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Don’t rely on overtime to salvage a plan
Posted on April 9, 2010 2 Comments
I came across a nice analogy today in Mike Cohn’s Succeeding with Agile book which describes what sustainable pace means: Watch any marathon, and each runner will keep it up for 26.2 miles. Look more closely, however, and you’ll notice that the pace is not entirely consistent from mile to mile. Each works a little […]
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Traditional Project Management Role on a Scrum Project
Posted on November 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
A “good read” article on Agile Journal, An Agile PM Isn’t What You Think Sub-Head: Where Does Traditional Project Management Fit in an Agile Project Using Scrum There is always considerable discussion about the role of the Traditional Project Manager on an Agile Scrum Project and this article describes it very well. In the end, […]
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