Agile
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Software Solutions Foundations with Agile Development
Today’s software engineering world has changed significantly since a decade ago. Software product development is accelerating, and expectations for releasing…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 5, the Product Value Team
If you need to plan more often than once a quarter, how do you know how to replan? Instead of…
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Focus on the Basics: The Art of Mastering Scrum
Strict adherence to the rules of Scrum can lead us astray. To master scrum, we must learn to unlearn. Focusing…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 4, Resilience, Prediction, & Feedback
One of my clients was trying—valiantly—to make their quarterly planning sessions work. They prepared, getting the big hotel room. They…
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Definition of Ready considered harmful
Earlier this week I was with a team and discussion turned to “the definition of ready.” This little idea has…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping
In Part 1, I wrote about thinking in feature sets so everyone could see smaller chunks of work. (If you…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 2, Rolling Wave Planning Inside One Quarter
In Part 1, I wrote about thinking in feature sets and how to quickly create a feature set of—with any…
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets
Many teams and organizations try to create one-quarter roadmaps. Here are the problems I see: Teams spend a ton of time…
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Documentation is another deliverable and 7 other rules
We (the programmers) had documentation coming out our ears. Architecture documents, design documents, user guides, functional specifications, program specifications, and…
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