Agile
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The Demise of IT Business Analysts
IT departments typically staff themselves with a group of folks known as business analysts. These folks have the responsibility of…
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Five Step Illustrated Guide to Setup a Kanban System in an Enterprise Organization
We’ve been through a significant number of Kanban implementations and our approach has largely been based on the approach outlined…
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Throughput Planning – Why Project Managers Should Like Lean and Agile
Project managers in IT have a tough job. I’ve been there myself, and I have also coached a large number…
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What Scrum, Kanban, RUP, and ITIL All Have In Common (which causes them to fail)
Putting aside the considerable differences in these methods, RUP, CMMI, Scrum, etc are foremost all products, built using a traditional…
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Looking For Leaders In All The Wrong Places
When I was a young developer, there was a re-org in the company. I found myself a team leader. That…
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Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts
I’ve been having some email conversations with some project and program managers turned Scrum Masters. In general here’s how things…
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In Agile development planning, a security framework loses out
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn explains the different factors that go into prioritizing work on a software development…
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Architects Need a Pragmatic Software Development Process
I have been a non-stop software architect since 2006. During my experience, I realized that it’s really hard to perform…
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An agile methodology for orthodox environments
My company designs and develop mobile and web based banking solutions. Our customers (banks for the most part) are highly…
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