Agile Goal Setting. Much has been written in agile literature about vision, mission, and goal setting, but few experts seem to agree on what it really means to set goals in an agile way.
Dictionaries don’t agree with encyclopedias, and process frameworks don’t agree with leading consultants. Or the other way around. This article is my attempt at adding some fuel to the fire. I hereby suggest a slightly modified approach to agile goal setting. Agile Alliance. Shaping Software » Blog Archive » Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development. Editor’s note: This is a guest post on Lean Software Development by Corey Ladas.
If you don’t know Corey, he is a product development methodologist extraordinaire. if you missed Corey’s previous post, Introduction to Lean Software Development, be sure to check it out. This is a follow up post for readers who wanted more information on some principles, patterns, and practices that could help support Lean Software Development. Lean Thinking is a paradigm of production and can’t easily be reduced to a process recipe. The particular form of any Lean process will always depend upon the form of the product that is created by that process.
However, any Lean process will realize a few essential principles. Posts on Agile Management - Management 3.0. Becaming Agile. Poppendieck.LLC.