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Delivering Agile in Hostile Environments

August 30, 2016 0

Agile versus Waterfall is often presented as a difference in development methodology, but it is much more a clash of cultures. Large bureaucracies, government regulation and many other factors can create an environment that is hostile to many forms of innovation and in which Waterfall is actually the most cost-effective approach.

Being Agile in Business

April 4, 2016 1

If agile started as a software development movement, the customer has been at the center of its values since its initial statement. The usage of agile and lean has now widespread beyond the IT world. In her book “Being Agile in Business”, Belinda Waldock explains the agile and lean approaches from a business perspective.

Clash of Agile Project in Waterfall Organisation

March 3, 2016 0

This presentation shares a set of stories, representing lessons learned from running an agile project in a waterfall-based telecom culture. What was done differently from the enterprise waterfall-based project management standard? What agile principles and specific practices were applied? What were tangible benefits to the business from the situation where one project team became “outlaws” of the corporate culture.

Scrum… Really

October 14, 2015 0

Scrum has long been the most popular of the Agile approaches for software development. But what is Scrum really about? What does a great Scrum team look like? Is Scrum really the flexible, free-spirited collection of ‘frameworks’ that are so often believed to be able to be tailored to suit what works for us? In our attempts to be ‘Agile’, have we forgotten the benefits of structure and discipline? Do we bend Scrum too much to suit us, and what is the impact of this?

Doing the Little Things Well

August 19, 2015 0

What we do in software development is hard. Lots of companies, teams, and people pick up Agile approaches to make it easier, and then realize it’s still really hard. They learn that Agile didn’t fix things. And, then they get to work trying to fix Agile.

A Project Management Office (PMO) View of Agile

July 20, 2015 1

As Agile product and project management approaches are adopted by large organizations, they have to coexist with a typical entity of big companies: the Project Management Office (PMO). A recent report from ESI International explores how the PMO staff views the challenges of implementing Agile in their organizations.

What Happened to the Idea of Inspect and Adapt?

May 20, 2015 0

It’s all too common these days to see arguments on Twitter or mailing lists with these rules-bound zealots arguing that ”you’re not agile” because you aren’t following the rules to their satisfaction.

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