Agile
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Measuring your IT OPS – Part 1
In my previous article I briefly explained the importance of measuring IT OPS to lay the foundations for Continuous Improvement…
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Product-Burndown-Charts and Sprint-Burndown-Charts in SCRUM Projects
Product-Backlog-Charts and Sprint-Backlog-Charts are used in almost all Agile approaches. In the following article the terminology of SCRUM is used,…
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Becoming a Leading Manager
My most recent post, We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership, has struck a chord. That’s the good news. The…
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Are Agile plans Better because they are Feature-Based?
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn quotes Jim Highsmith on why Agile projects are better: “One of the things…
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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not…
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The pursuit of protection: How much testing is “enough”?
I’m definitely not a testing expert. I’m a manager who wants to know when the software that we are building…
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Programs and Technical Debt
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt,…
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Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or,…
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You don’t need Testers – Or do you?
I talk to a lot of people in both big and small software development organizations about how they manage software…
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