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How Can Management Contribute to an Agile Project?

August 14th, 2009

Mark Balabanian, new appointed COO of Accunote, asks the question how can a manager help a Scrum team. From his previous encounters with Scrum teams he thought that Scrum was just a tool to shield developers from management, forcing management to interact with developers on their terms. Now he’s read “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle to improve his understanding of Scrum. However, the book doesn’t cover in great detail the role of management and so Mark wondered what he should be doing. [Learn more][1].

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/agile-managers-role

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Working Software or Customer Value

August 5th, 2009

A few years back when I was still doing hands-on project management work… I used to teach internal classes on iterative and incremental product development. Officially… we were teaching a very light-weight instantiation of the Rational Unified Pro…

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Retrospectives are a Powerful Tool

July 27th, 2009

I’m a firm believer in retrospectives and the value that comes from a team committing to constant improvement.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been delivering Agile training to a wide range of folks from developers to testers to traditional PM’s to business folks and so on.  To demonstrate the power of retrospectives, at the end [...]

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Bugs on the Product Backlog

July 7th, 2009

Ideally bugs belong on the product backlog just like any feature request. But, that would often necessitate a significant change for the rest of the organization so two backlogs are used.

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