Being able to make plans with different horizons and level of detail is crucial to synchronizing the activities that’s part of putting together product releases. Be it marketing campaigns, training, or resource planning. This presentation discusses how organizations doing agile development can create plans that look at both the near …
Recently, in the Rails community, there has been an upsurge of interest in testing. For instance, in the past year alone, we’ve seen the introduction of a bevy of new testing-related gems (i.e. context, cucumber, factory_girl, remarkable, webrat, etc.). These are all good things. And yet do we still see …
A funny video about the “before” and “after” project planning activity with planning poker. [youtube wxLRNTSBXds]
Scum is an easy technique to use in smaller teams and companies. Also a traditional project manager can adapt her project to most aspects of Scrum even if the surrounding business in unaware. But what about when the Scrum implementation gets really large? What if a whole telecom organization like …
Early in 2007, PMI’s IT&T SIG and the Scrum Alliance began forging a cooperative relationship with two primary goals: 1) Build a bridge between their two organizations that would allow their respective members to have greater access to the tools offered by the other 2) Reduce the hostility that often …
You will be introduced to Lean Thinking, the five principles and the seven wastes, and argumentation on how they apply to the Software Development Process. As a result you will see a new world of potential areas of improvements, and have a base from where you can challenge some of …
