Like many of their peers, software developers at the TexasEducation Agency (TEA) previously started a project by documenting detailed requirements. Only when they finished that labor-intensive phase ...

Agile and Scrum are not competing concepts. In fact, to implement the Scrum methodology properly, you must approach it with an Agile mindset. To do Scrum right, product development teams must be Agile ...

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The ability to adapt and deliver value quickly is a key differentiator for success (and ultimately, a satisfied end user) in Agile software development. This is where Scrum, a “set of values, ...

You need to augment the agile process with a set of disciplines and technologies to get the full value of the agile methodology If you are leading or participating in an agile development process and ...

A key characteristic of classical project management is its sequential and linear approach to project planning and execution. It involves detailed upfront planning, such as creation of a comprehensive ...

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It’s ironic that the idea of Agile—a central concept of competitiveness in the 21 st Century economy—which began in manufacturing in the early 1990s, took hold in software, not manufacturing. While ...

A reader remarked about my recent article on Salesforce.com, “Frankly, this looks like a plug for Scrum.” Well, yes. If there was a Nobel Prize for management, and if there was any justice in the ...

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...