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- Change is inevitable, respond to it positively through agile project management
- Agile Development and Management Exposes RealityThe biggest shock that comes from adopting agile methods is that it exposes the true nature of project work.Projects do not neatly progress from phase to phase; it is not similar to climbing stairs or going down the famous waterfall. A lot of project...
- Tags: Agile Development, agile management, agile project management, it management, project management, team, Wayne M.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-26
- Change is inevitable, respond to it positively through agile project management
- As thesaying goes, the best laid plans are bound to go astray. When it comes down toit, projectmanagement is all about managing the twists and turns of collaborativedevelopment. The ability to adapt and respond to these inevitable changes willdetermine whether the project in question will be successful.In hisbook, Managing Agile...
- Tags: agile project management, benefit, Mark Kaelin, project management, Sanjiv Augustine, team
- Technical articles 2005-08-18
- Project Management in Agile Development Environments
- The fundamentals of good project management remain the same whatever methodology and approach is being used to develop a software product: communicating, building effective teams, planning and monitoring progress. There are however some aspects of the "Agile Mindset" which are important when using Agile methods to deliver the product. Agile...
- Tags: Software, Team, Agile Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Software Development, Project Management, Management, Software/Web Development, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2004-04-01
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- The Need for Agile Project Management
- One of the common misperceptions about agile processes is that there is no need for project management, and that agile projects run themselves. It is easy to see how an agile process' use of self-organizing teams, its rapid pace, and the decreased emphasis on detailed plans lead to this perception....
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Overview of Agile Management & Development Methods
- This paper presents an overview of Agile Project Management & Development Methods. The paper will describe the deficiency of normal project development processes, who started Agile Management & development method, what is it made up of and who should use it, differences between Agile development processes and normal development processes,...
- Tags: Method, Project Development, Development Method, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-06-27
- Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking
- Lean and Agile are both methods of improving the effectiveness and performance of work processes. Lean comes primarily from manufacturing and in particular the Toyota Production System. Agile comes primarily from Agile Software Development and Project Management. Agile Work has borrowed heavily from Lean thinking and practices. There are three...
- Tags: Team, Agile Software, Agile Work, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-02-22
- Develop an agile approach to IT project management
- This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams:...
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, Prentice Hall Inc., IT Project Management, Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2006-04-28
- Successful Project Management Using Agile Methodology
- A methodology is a set of guidelines or principles that can be tailored and applied to a specific situation. In a project environment, these guidelines might be a list of things to do. A methodology could also be a specific approach, templates, forms, and even checklists used over the project...
- Tags: Methodology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Learn how to use an agile Light Touch to manage your project team more effectively
- Most project managers work in a hierarchical organization where assignments come from the top down. In an agile project management environment this hierarchy is counterproductive. The concept of agile project management pivots on the idea that assignments and work flow should be determined by the highly skilled...
- Tags: Team, Prentice Hall Inc., Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2005-08-12
- Transform your software development and software project management processes by adopting agile methods
- It is not too extreme a statement to say that when it comes to software development and software project management in general, agile changes everything. In this sample chapter from Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, examine new paradigms that real teams are using to...
- Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2007-03-27
- Develop an agile approach to IT project management
- This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams: release planning, iteration planning, and daily planning.Title: Agile Estimating and PlanningISBN: 0131479415Published: November 2005Author: Mike CohnChapter: Chapter 3: An Agile ApproachPublished...
- Tags: team, iteration, Planning, Prentice Hall Inc., Agile Estimating, information technology, IT project management, Published
- Download resources 2006-04-28
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 3: The Role of Agile Stakeholders
- Part 1 of this series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. Part 2 discusses how different types of organizations, such as start-ups, product companies, and small and large organizations, adapt to agile development. This paper discusses the different...
- Tags: Stakeholder, Software Development, Development Tools, Benefits, Software/Web Development, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-05-20
- Avoiding the Four Roadblocks to Agile Adoption
- This webcast will describe Rally's on-demand Web service for managing all aspects of Agile software development. The secure, subscription-based service helps in-house, distributed and outsourced teams more efficiently define, develop and deliver software releases. The webcast will demonstrate how Rally combines Agile project management with an integrated workflow for requirements,...
- Tags: Team, Webcast, Team Management, Digital Media, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Just Enough Agile: Understand the Principles of Agile Development From the Executive Viewpoint
- The goal of this white paper is to explain and demystify agile development from an executive viewpoint. It explores the benefits of agile development, debunks the misconceptions that have grown around the approach, provides a primer on key agile terms and concepts and illustrates how agile can work in an...
- Tags: Development, Compuware Corp., Viewpoint Corp., Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Architectural Manifesto: Adopting Agile Development, Part 1 - Is Agile Development Right for Your Organization?
- As agile development has grown in popularity over the past few years, many companies are considering how to take advantage of agile development processes and techniques. Though the author is not an agile evangelist, agile development techniques have proven to be beneficial in certain types of organizations and projects. Agile...
- Tags: Development, Agile Development, Productivity
- White papers 2008-03-18
- Stretching Agile to Fit CMMI Level 3 - The Story of Creating MSF for CMMI Process Improvement at Microsoft Corporation
- Agile practitioners pride themselves on highly productive, responsive, low ceremony, lightweight, tacit knowledge processes with little waste, adaptive planning and frequent iterative delivery of value. Agile developers often skeptically perceive formal process improvement initiatives as management generated inefficiency that gets in the way of productivity. Microsoft Consulting Services has offered...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Consulting Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Project Management and Agile Methodologies: A Survey
- This paper examines analogies and differences derived by the adoption of Agile Methodologies AMs in a set of software companies from the point of view of project management techniques. Data come from questionnaires filled in by twenty-one managers. The analysis of these questionnaires shows that managers using AMs focus on...
- Tags: Survey, Springer Science+Business Media, Manager, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Software Development, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Offshore Agile Practice Adopted in CMS Development
- The project's purpose is to add new modules and enhance features for the proprietary CMS application, and create highly customized commercial partner portals for customers that need service in the domain of incentive and reward mechanisms to influence their employees' performance and thus achieve profitability and retention. The project has...
- Tags: Offshore, Project, Team, Partnership, Content Management System, Content Management, Business Structures, Team Management, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Internet
- White papers 2007-06-29
- Case Study: HUBBUB
- The Hubbub Group comprises six businesses. It builds, owns and operates e-businesses which use web-enabled software to transform traditional business processes and achieve efficiency benefits. Hubbub's business systems are developed on its own framework using best-of-breed applications. It uses agile project management methodology and breaks each project down into two-week...
- Tags: Hubbub Group, ARNIE, ARNIE System, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Insurance, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
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- Quality parameters selection for Agile projects
- Which quality parameters are best for Agile Projects in Software industry.In Agile, quality is intrinsicAgile processes, like Extreme Programming, have quality as a major driver or force. In Agile, everything you do is done with quality in mi
- Tags: software, derive ametrics to track agile project performance, Agile, amulay@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-10
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