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Tag: Agile

  • Productivity

    Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all

    Imagine the scene.  You are starting a new project.  At the kickoff meeting the stakeholder introduces the mission of the project, the business analyst hands out the requirements document, the project manager hands out the project plan, and the development manager gives his best “Do it for the Gipper” speech.  You look through the project plan and see that it specifies a release date (several months in the future), the resources that will be involved, major milestones to be met, and everyone’s assignments. The team looks over the stack of paper in front of them, and roll their eyes. “Here ...
    Japikse by Phil Japikse
    February 03, 2012
  • Productivity

    5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today

    “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain wasn’t a Software Development manager in any way; however, his words still resonate very accurately when it comes to how you can get started adopting Agile project management techniques. Here are the top 5 practices you can use TODAY regardless of your situation or environment. 1.Don’t call it “Agile” – The term Agile seems to have become fatigued or simply over/misused. In some organizations it ...
    December 24, 2011
  • Productivity

    Know Thy Customer

    Sounds simple. Why is it so hard then? First, what do I mean when I say “Know Thy Customer?”  Ultimately I mean that the best teams have customer value at the heart of their software development processes – they truly “Know Thy Customer”.   I’m not saying anything new – however, I do want to talk about how to take this beyond simply “proclaiming” you know your customer or that you have a prioritized backlog down to some ways you can execute and engage. I’ve made many mistakes in my almost 20 years of developing software.  Lots and lots of technical ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 26, 2011
  • Productivity

    Agile is for your WHOLE Business

    I’ve said this very often – and I’ll say it one more time. Agile isn’t just about software development. It can be effective to manage your entire business. I’m a huge believer that many aspects of Agile should be applied to business – especially management and sales approaches. In his book Enterprise Scrum, Ken Schwaber introduces the idea of using Scrum at the enterprise level.  I don’t think we need to stop at Scrum to apply Agile to Business development, sales, or virtually any corporate initiative.  The principles hold true.  This is becoming more and more apparent as I ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 14, 2011
  • Productivity

    A Testament to an Agile Team

    I wrote a number of blog posts on a “behind the scenes look” at how the TeamPulse team works.  You can read all about them here (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) As you can see, we truly value and embrace the principles behind Agile and have worked very hard to get the team to where it is today. When I started with Telerik and began to think about how I would form the team, I can’t deny that I hand picked specific people with specific personality and technical traits.  In fact, I will be completely honest ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 14, 2011
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