The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections. Blog. Posted by admin on April 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment By Brian Tracy America contains millions of men and women who have come from difficult backgrounds, with every conceivable type of handicap and liability, but have gone on to build wonderful lives for themselves through self-improvement, positive affirmations and setting long-term goals.
Blogging SEO – 7 Tips With Resources from Blogworld Expo New York. Search engine optimization (aka SEO) helps make your blog findable for your potential audience. The challenge for bloggers (and other content creators) is developing content that’s attractive to both humans and search engines. 7 SEO Tips for Bloggers Including Resources While search engine optimization is a specialized area of digital marketing, you don’t need a specialist to make your blog more findable. An Example ScrumMaster's Checklist. An adequate ScrumMaster can handle two or three teams at a time.
If you're content to limit your role to organizing meetings, enforcing timeboxes, and responding to the impediments people explicitly report, you can get by with part time attention to this role. The team will probably still exceed the baseline, pre-Scrum expectation at your organization, and probably nothing catastrophic will happen. Agile Atlas. Scrum Principles Values from the Agile Manifesto Scrum is the best-known of the Agile frameworks.
It is the source of much of the thinking behind the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, which form a common basis for all of these approaches. Please see the Manifesto for more information. Optimizing Offshore Software Development with Agile. This is a guest post by Prasad Chaudhari, freelance java consultant.
He was appointed as a project manager for the project mentioned below and played a role of ScrumMaster. The first prerequisite to going agile offshore is a mature and realistic understanding of agile at home. We’ve been practicing scrum on-site for several years including trained Product Owners (POs) and ScrumMasters, both of whom employ and leverage scrum artifacts. Locally, we have six scrum teams: five software development teams, and one IT operations team. Each team has a sprint backlog, scrum board and burn-down chart. Our company has a universal understanding and acceptance of the Lean and Agile Value Chain, beginning with rough user concepts and ending with customer delivery. Last year, we decided to grow our software development capability by adding another scrum team in India. Can offshore teams really be agile? The offshore team’s organization structure is the next thing to check. Infographic: Watch A Company's Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years. Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larger machine.
The problem can be, how do you track that machine’s anatomy? How do you know what a “restructuring” really looks like, beyond that your middle manager has a new face? Justin Matejka wondered the same thing after his relatively small employer Alias was acquired by Autodesk, so he created this remarkable animated visualization called the OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart), which tracks every employee, manager, and departmental shift in the company from May 2007 to April 2011.
Www.management30.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Work-Expo.pdf. Grow the life you want. Deming's The New Economics for Industry, Government & Education. Show Me! What Brain Research Says About Visuals in PowerPoint. Change Management vs. Change Leadership. Www.icontact-archive.com/n_79QZ4v1pE1G84u0kOqHrjBNBVY66G9?w=1.
Johanna's Three Tips for 2013 For the past three years, I've shared three tips with you just in time for New Year's.
This year is no exception. 1. Make time for reflection and observation. I bet this week has been a pleasure for you. The 12 Best Books I Read in 2012. Www.poppendieck.com/pdfs/Compensation.pdf. Agile performance reviews and guidelines for scrum. My last post of Performance reviews and Scrum left some readers unsatisfied.
Brett send me an email where he comments: So, while my heart leapt when I saw this link, sadly I was bitterly disappointed to discover that despite the fact its one of your most frequently asked questions, you didn’t actually answer it at all. Vlog 45 Sneakpreview - low audio quality. Two Examples of Splitting Epics. Outsourcer Says: Do Not Outsource. Do not outsource your software development.
Yes, you read that right. Continuous Improvement for a Perfect 10. I remember sitting on the basement steps in the summer of 1976 watching Nadia Comaneci win the worlds first perfect 10 in the history of modern gymnastics.
Her command of the whirling routine on the uneven bars was a marvel. The announcers told us that she had scored a 10, but the scoreboards read 1.00! Turns out that Omega, the traditional Olympics scoreboard manufacturer, asked beforehand if the boards for gymnastics would need four digits., they were told that a perfect 10 was impossible. As I watched that fourteen-year-old girl push the limits of how strong and graceful a human body can be, I thought, “I wonder how many times she has fallen as she tried something new? And how many times she got back up eager to try again. The idea behind continuous improvement is that things aren’t as good as they could be, yet. The Top Five Challenges of Building Software Platforms in the Agile World. Introduction During the past decade, agile software development has gained great momentum and found its way to an overwhelming number of organizations of different scales [1].
Agile methods preach a raft of values and provide a wide range of practices that help reach and maintain such values. Am Ende wird alles gut oder warum Lieferungen ständig mit heißer Nadel gestrickt sind › bor!sgloger. Weekly Scrum readings follow up - CW50/2012 (Metrics - Measure up, Pay for performance, Story Points) Background. Agile Estimating. Measure Up. Getting measurements right can be devilishly difficult, but getting them wrong can be downright dangerous. If you look underneath most self-defeating behavior in organizations, you will often find a well-intentioned measurement which has gone wrong. Consider the rather innocent-sounding measurement of productivity, and it’s close cousin, utilization. One of the biggest impediments to adopting Just-in-Time manufacturing was the time-honored practice of trying to extract maximum productivity out of every machine.
The inevitable result was that mounds of inventory collected to feed machines and additional piles of inventory stacked up at the output side of the machines. The long queues of material slowed everything down, as always queues do. As software development organizations search for productivity on today’s tight economy, we see the same lesson being learned again. The secret is that Nucor measures productivity at a team level, not at an individual level. Wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pfeffer_congressional_testimony_08mar2007.pdf. Agile Advice – Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, OpenAgile, Lean) One of the challenges with agile methods is to get a clear perspective on how to measure process improvements. I recently had a brief discussion with a C-level executive at a small organization about this.
His concern was that cycle time was meaningless because it depended so much upon the size of the work package. So how do we use cycle time as a meaningful measurement? What else can we use to measure process improvement? Let’s look at the difference in measuring cycle time in an agile vs. non-agile environment. Cycle Time , Waterfall and Agile. Www.innovel.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/appropriateagilemeasurementagilemetrics.pdf. Why I Don't Use Story Points for Sprint Planning. Agile Estimating. Mountain Goat Software. Gil Broza free program: Something Happened on the Way to Agile. Hiring is a Team Activity. April 9th, 2012 In an earlier article, I said, “Hiring new people for a team should always be a joint decision that involves team members.” Blog. The Pay Off in Merit Pay (Not) January 14th, 2009. The Human Side of Agile How to help your team deliver.
Weekly Scrum readings follow up - CW48/2012. Sources: Agile Metrics (Pdf presentation by Danube technologies)and Running Tested Features Metric (Blog post) The Running Tested Features metric is described as a nice metric to foster agility and is not that easy to game. What is RTF about:The desired software is broken down into named features (requirements, stories) which are part of what it means to deliver the desired system.For each named feature, there are one or more automated acceptance tests which, when they work, will show that the feature in question is implemented.The RTF metric shows, at every moment in the project, how many features are passing all their acceptance tests. Fog Creek Professional Ladder. 5 Reasons Your Top Employee Isn't Happy.
Www2.smartbear.com/rs/smartbear/images/WP_Peer-Code-Review_Agile-Process.pdf. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes. The Product Owner Problem. Weekly Scrum readings follow up - CW49/2012. Let’s Help Melly. Real Life Scrum. Though new Agile approaches like “Lean startup” and Kanban are emerging and XP practices are being rediscovered, Scrum is still by far the most popular method used for Agile delivery and transition. TastyCupcakes.org. Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell.