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Getting to Business Value
In my last post I talked about starting with business value. Remember that a business capability describes something the business depends on for a specific purpose or outcome. As Mike Cottmeyer talks...
View ArticleFeeding the Agile Beast
I want to share the presentation I did in the Open Jam at Agile 2009. I got good feedback from some of the thought leaders there like David Anderson, Chris Matts, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle, and Mike...
View ArticleCreative Solution Finding and Big Agile
The Model I am looking at today is from “Creative Solution Finding: The triumph of Breakthrough Thinking over Conventional Problem Solving” by Gerald Nadler, Ph.D. and Shozo Hibino, Ph.D. I used a lot...
View ArticleAgile Requirements Analysis
Today I am discussing the tasks from the BABOK® associated with Requirements Analysis. These are the tasks to organize, prioritize, and model requirements and risks. There are six tasks associated with...
View ArticleAgile BABOK® Wrap up
This is the final post in my review of the impact of Agile on the tasks within the knowledge areas of the BABOK®. There are some interesting findings from this exercise. The implications are that...
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Making Agile Requirements Work-No 3
Dictionary.com defines a requirement as “that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory”. BABOK® is consistent with this. It defines a requirement as: A condition or capability needed by a...
View ArticleMaking Agile Requirements Work-NO 5
I hear a lot about emergent outcomes, and progressive elaboration, and self organization on Agile projects. These are slippery slope concepts, and far too often are applied irresponsibly. Emergent...
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Making Agile Requirements Work-NO 6
On many software development projects, teams that are interested in getting started writing code early start by building the things they understand first. While this gets code started and in front of...
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The Agile Bargains
There is a nice summary of Kanban at http://www.kanbandistilled.com/. It shows Feature Requests going into the Software Development Pipeline and Improved Software coming out.The article does a great...
View ArticleWe are Doing QA All Wrong
Over the last month I have presented or participated in several user groups and conferences. There was Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, Agile 2010 in Orlando, a PMI Atlanta professional growth event,...
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