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Agile (Line) Management Evidence shows that agile development done well can positively affect your ROI. But if these methods are so great, why doesn’t every team adopt them? Look to management for the answer.
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Old Habits Die Hard It’s easy to develop habits in one environment that don’t translate to a new environment. Here are some tips to keep old habits from holding you back.
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Agile and Lean Performance Agile's focus on iterative development is undeniably effective, but that's not the whole story on why agile works. Learn why agile results in better performance and how you can use this information to achieve success in your own technology efforts.
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Performance Factory for Agile and Lean Organizations Implementing agile and lean performance appraisals presents some unique challenges. This article discusses how to do so in a way that helps to enhance the agile and lean practices that so clearly result in excellent team and organizational performance. The good news is that agile and lean performance management is much more effective than other methods.
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Making Multi-Team Agile Programs Successful Many people have questions about how to manage multi-team projects, and Ronica Roth explains how this can be accomplished in this article. Through coordination and open, constant communication, your multi-team projects will no longer cause head headaches, but will result in positive productivity.
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A Tale of Two Product Owners The product owner role on agile projects is critical to the team and the project. The product owner's influence, performance, and behavior can set the stage for smooth sailing—or sink a project. In this article, Anupam Kundu shares two different product owner experiences to drive home the argument how their behaviors and practices can shape organizational culture—specifically for new product development and start-ups.
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2011 Prediction: Organizations will Continue Applying Agile Strategies at Scale With all of agile's documented successes, the methodologies are being used in areas never before seen. Scott W. Ambler looks into why agile is as popular as it is, and why its popularity will only increase in the future.
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The Seven Dimensions of Agile Software Projects Looking for an agile refresher? Here, Jurgen Appelo applies his seven dimensions of software projects—people, functionality, quality, tools, time, value, and process—to what he believes are the fundamentals of agile. And, for those who might disagree, he suggests an eighth dimension that brings its own value to agile: conflict.
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Agile vs. Waterfall: The Blue Ocean Explains Why Agile Wins The Blue Ocean Strategy gives important insights regarding how to create new market space in uncontested markets thereby making the competition irrelevant. This strategy can be adopted to explain the significance of agile methodologies as compared to the Waterfall method of software development.
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Harvesting Stakeholder Perspectives to Organize Your Backlog When Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener facilitated a game called The Backlog Is in the Eye of the Beholder for the Boston chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis, both the players and the facilitators learned some important lessons in organizing a project requirements backlog. In this article, they describe the game and what it revealed, including the value of truly knowing your stakeholders.
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