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What can you get out of Kanban?
I’ve spent the last year or so learning more about Kanban, how to use it in software development and IT operations. It’s ...
Client Reviews: From Waterfall to Agile
We are currently transforming a large organization with 200+ people to adopt new agile behaviors. The transformation started off with identifying 3 pilot projects to be the first adopters ...
Build documentation to last – choose the agile way
Lately I wondered what the best way to document a project is?My documentation experience vary among different tools and methodologies. I would like to ...
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 talking to folks that work in the business and ...
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 in David J. Andersons Kanban ...
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 of project managers (PM) throughout my travels consulting for a number ...
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 product development approach.This means they ...
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 is the normal thing in software organizations (and I assume also in others) – ...
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 have proceeded:Their organizations decided ...
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 project: financial value, cost, ...
