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Posts Tagged ‘Scope’

Interesting Post… 9/6/2009 through 9/12/2009

September 13th, 2009

Time for another (almost) weekly installment of Interesting Post. Every week I feel like the number of agile related articles was pretty light… but then I go to build this post… and realize there was a ton of great content out there. I guess I ju…

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Measuring Agile Performance with the Agile Triangle

August 26th, 2009

Traditional software development teams are supposed to work within the confines of the software ‘Iron triangle’. The three sides of the triangle are Scope, Schedule and Cost. Since Agile places a lot of emphasis on quality, it is often considered a dimension which sits at the middle of the triangle. For any project to succeed there is a need to maneuver one of the dimensions keeping the others relatively constant. Most Agile teams vary the scope and keep a tab on Cost, Schedule and Quality. Jim Highsmith suggested that the Iron triangle, imposes a lot of constraints on the flexibility of the Agile teams and suggested an alternate Agile Triangle. [Learn more][1].

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

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Is Quality an Absolute?

August 11th, 2009

Last week I did a post called “The Hard Reality”. I made the point that anything you build… any document you create… that doesn’t result in revenue for the business… is wasting time and money. Personally, unless you build software as a hobby……

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Be a Get Things Done Guy

August 3rd, 2009

I don’t want to be a Scrum guy. I don’t want to be an XP guy. I don’t want to be a Lean guy… or a Kanban guy… or a DSDM guy… or a RUP guy… or a PMI guy. For that matter… I don’t even want to be an Agile guy.As my experience has broadened o…

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Why There Should Not Be a “Release Backlog”

February 8th, 2009

A rejection of the idea that agile teams should use a Release Backlog in addition to the already generally accepted Product and Sprint (or Iteration) Backlogs.

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