Entrepreneurship, governance, and striking a balance
...functions, but who think of themselves as leaders of the whole business. In the world of Agile, governance, such as it is, is embodied in the product owner. And establishing...… (5 comments)
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Leery of LSD
...as opposed to chaku-chaku, or single-piece flow, which clearly is Good as it’s Japanese). Waterfall is inferior to what we had been calling, in our unenlightened way, agile or adaptive...… (9 comments)
Business Agility
...out functionality. This provides maximum value in minimum time. Specifically, Hugos describes his preferred variant of Agile systems development: Define/Design/Build. He allows two to six weeks for definition, one to...… (3 comments)
What it takes to deliver the goods: IT CSFs 7 and 8
...there’s lots of controversy over whether SDLCs should be waterfall or Agile. And within the Agile community there’s lots of controversy over whether it should be Kanban, Scrum, eXtreme, or...… (3 comments)
Static: It’s what makes things obsolete
...that makes Hadoop implementations much more like Agile methodologies, when contrasted with traditional data warehouse projects, which resemble traditional (and obsolete in parallel ways) waterfall methodologies, as data design (specifications)...… (3 comments)
The 30% solution
...all small Agile application development projects succeed; (2) anecdotally, 100% of all requested software enhancements complete pretty much on schedule and with satisfactory results; and (3) during batting practice, most...… (5 comments)
Hitting the bulls-eye on the wrong target
...all variants of Agile, to which DevOps is tied at the ankle, and Waterfall, whose deficiencies are what have led to Agile’s popularity, all focus on application development. WAKE UP!!!!!...… (3 comments)
Mitt Romney, Agility King
...about doing business differently and better or what’s the point? — so Romney himself deserves credit for the “business innovation” of using Agile techniques to blow out his cake’s candles....… (10 comments)
Tele-teams?
...early in the project, before issues arise. Second example: Agilistas … practitioners of real Agile methodologies, not “Scrummerfall” variants that replace Agile’s “individuals and relationships over processes and tools” with...… (5 comments)
Random thoughts
...notion that a single way of doing things is optimal for all situations. It never is. Consider application development. Best practice? There are those who insist Agile is the way...… (2 comments)