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The Business Case for Agility Too many technology projects fail to deliver the promised value, and some do not deliver at all. Traditional project management methods when applied to software initiatives continue to frustrate financial professionals and offer poor risk mitigation. In the current economic environment, businesses are forced to reduce their capital budgets and cannot afford to make significant investments without more certainty of appropriate return. |
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Executive Strategies for Agile Transition - Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider
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Bob interviews Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider about Executive Strategies for Agile Transition. |
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Continuous Integration and Testing Lisa Crispin explains in this article how CI has become an absolute necessity for any software development team in this day and age. For those who have yet to fully embrace CI, this article gives you some great reasons you should, along with some helpful resources to get you started. |
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What's So Special About Specialists? If two projects in your organization require specific expertise that only one employee has, what do you do? Projects need to stay on track, but one person certainly can't be everywhere—or even two places—at once. In this column, Johanna Rothman shares a story of an organization stuck in the specialist mindset and offers some tips on how to escape if you're stuck there, too. |
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Tips and Advice - Beyond The Team - Sanjiv Augustine
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Bob interviews Sanjiv Augustine about agile transitions. |
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Deep Agile Conference 2009 - Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Jack Ganssle
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A podcast about the Deep Agile 2009 conference. |
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Tips and Advice - Team Rooms
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Many organizations know the importance of nurturing culture in order to create happy and productive teams, but how many have set aside team rooms for these groups to accomplish their builds? In this podcast, Bob Payne get the opinion of someone who agrees with this added bonus for teams. |
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Feature Injection: Part One We are leaving the "last responsible moment" for a while. This month we start a discussion of Feature Injection, an analysis process based on real options and Kolb's circle of learning. The first episode ( of five ) introduces the "Information Arrival Processes. |
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Tips and Advice - Listener Email - Self Organizing Teams In this podcast, Bob and George respond to a listener-submitted email by providing a better understanding of what truly makes self-organizing teams. We encourage you to listen to this informative discussion to make sure everyone is on the same page with what these teams are truly made of. |
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Agile in the Downturn The current economic downturn is a new test for Agile, until now Agile has been promoted in a growing economy. Proponents of Agile have emphasized how it improve competitive advantage and helps a company out-compete its rivals. Now companies are concerned with simple survival. Today's managers are concerned with cutting costs, improving cashflow and managing without credit. Organizational change and process improvement are not top of the agenda. Promoting Agile in this environment is something new. |
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