Interlocking Roles in Agile
This video explores the interlocking roles in Agile software development projects: Agile Coach, Product Owner and Agile Manager.
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The Scrum Burndown Chart
Jeff Sutherland explains in this video that the Burndown Chart is intended to monitor the simultaneous agile development methods going on within a Scrum team. Like a fighter plane landing, there is no room for error, and the chart is intended to monitor such issues.
Agile Project Risk Management
The article “Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods” presents several symptoms and causes of schedule problems, describes metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and proposes Agile approaches to mitigate these risks.
Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI Together
This article compares CMMI® and Scrum since groups struggle with when using them together and explains why you can use both as Scrum is a good implementation for some of the practices in Level 2 and all the remaining practices in Levels 2 and 3 can be implemented while using...
Agile Development: Redefining “Management” in Project Management
This paper discusses the new role project managers and their team members play when applying Agile methodology to their software development projects.
Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum
When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of “manager” seems to be missing entirely. “Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!” wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in...
How to Sustain Adaptive Planning
Scrum and other agile methods recognize that responsiveness to change is an important aspect of delivering projects. They also recognize that software development is evolutionary and creative. By managing changes through Adaptive planning, Scrum provides a simple yet effective method of planning and tracking project progress. “How to Sustain Adaptive...
Book Review: Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book...