A Framework for Agile Bob Aiello discusses how CM and agile practices can go hand in hand - provided that you have a solid framework to work with. With agile's popularity seemingly always on the rise, alongside the need for CM, learn how having both benefits everyone onboard. |
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The Search for the Agile Grail Since the early 90s organizations have searched for ways to accelerate the development and implementation of new business systems. As it turns out, the ability for organizations to rapidly respond to changes in the marketplace, regulatory environment and demand of the customers is a critical competitive advantage. Over the last few years organizations have been experimenting with a new methodology that is thought to provide time savings when it comes to business systems development and implementation. Perhaps the most common methodology being considered is Agile. Agile refers to an approach for software development rather than just a methodology. It is a member of the same class o methodologies as Lean, RUP and Extreme Programming (XP). |
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Global Development vs The Agile Manifesto Agile. Global. Development. Think those three words don't go together? Macadamian Technologies has been doing agile development globally for several yearsa nd has permanent offices in Romania and Armenia and have long-term deals with developers in two other countries. Most of the projects we're doing now have some kind of global component. |
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Merging Waterfall and Agile: Across the Seven Seas This s the story about how an onsite/offshore team delivered a fixed-bid project using agile practices. The delivery effort was very successful. This article highlights our approach, challenges and successes. |
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Agile2007 - Rick Mugridge - New product demo for ZiBreve
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Bob Payne speaks to Rick Mugridge about ZeBreve, Fit, and the Agile 2007 conference. |
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Savvy Shopping for COTS Software Remember the last time you went grocery shopping without a list and you had your toddler, your mother, or spousal unit with you? Or when you stopped by the beer store and found yourself standing in the chip aisle, dazed and confused by the choices? Did you get what you needed? Did you spend as much money as you expected to? Mary Gorman discusses the value of starting out with clear requirements when shopping for commercial off-the-shelf software. |
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An Agile Approach to Release Management For teams practicing Agile Software development, value working software over other artifacts, a feature from the release plan is not complete until you can demonstrate it to your customer, ideally in a shippable state. Agile teams strive to have a working system ("potentially shippable") ready at the end of each iteration. Release Management should be easy for an ideal agile team, as agile teams, in theory, are ready to release at regular intervals, and the release management aspect is the customer saying, "Ship it!." |
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Traces of Agile in the Big Apple Michele Sliger is often asked if the agile approach can be used for things other than software development. She gave the question some consideration and found the following example of a non-IT case of agility in action, which she highlights in this week's column. |
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Eight Reasons Retrospectives Fail Retrospectives work for most teams, yet some teams are convinced that retrospectives will never work for them. When Esther Derby came across several of these teams for which retrospectives had failed, she questioned why and discovered eight common reasons for those failures. In this column, she details these eight reasons and offers solutions for each one. |
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Agile CMMI: KPIs for Agile Teams Today's Agile teams contend with challenges that few development visionaries could have imagined when the foundations for Agile were first put in place. In this article, we will examine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that Agile teams can use to achieve transparency into key development processes, and fulfill the customer requirements of our maturing world. |
Roger N. Dunn
May 13, 2008 |
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