…becomes your initial change management plan and a part of the overall agile transformation roadmap. 2. Commit to the Agile Transformation A friend of mine is a former tennis touring professional. I was talking with him recently about the surge in popularity of pickleball. He said that pickleball (and before…

…valid alternatives to traditional software development processes. Most people who adopt agile do so to realize the benefits of faster delivery, higher quality, products that more closely match user needs, and so on. Not everyone is so enamored of agile. Some teams and individuals balk when a mandate to “become…

…other responsibilities, such as management roles (e.g., no need to debate product manager vs product owner). But no matter their job title, they must be empowered to make decisions (in collaboration with their stakeholders) so that the team always knows they are building the right thing, for the right people,…

…University-Billings sharris@msubillings.edu 2Mountain Goat Software, LLC mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com Abstract. Very little has been written to date on how to prioritize and sequence the development of new features and capabilities on an agile software development project. Agile product managers have been advised to prioritize based on “business value.” While this seems an…

…a project. The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project this way: A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. The temporary nature of projects indicates that a project has a definite beginning and end. The general argument against projects is that work…

…closely guarded by Rational Software. This article, therefore, primarily documents Karner’s work as describer by Schneider and Winters (1998) and Ribu (2001). Use Case Points The number of use case points in a project is a function of the following: the number and complexity of the use cases in the…

…you’ve heard about agile software development projects but aren’t sure if they allow for the detailed planning and estimation your business requires. You might also worry if your team provides the estimates that management wants, the numbers might come back to haunt you. Whether you are a manager, programmer, tester,…

…organize them, prioritize them and use them for planning, management and testing.

…wants in a new software system assumes that not only does she know what she wants but also that she’s qualified to answer the question. Just because you have a problem does not mean you are the best person to solve it. For example, I was with a team that…

…passing of the agile software development season. Long disparaged and with few vocal proponents, the waterfall method appears poised to make a comeback. The recent announcement of the Waterfall 2006 conference (www.waterfall2006.com) may foreshadow the end of agile, especially given the number of leading agile advocates slated to participate in…

…confidence and satisfaction, we’d release to production. But without fail, only a few hours after we released the new version of our call center software, we’d get our first bug report. Was our testing at fault? Nope. Our change management system was. And it was causing some big (and embarrassing)…