The Scrum practitioners' adoption of the Agile practice indicated a promise of a new way forward for software development management and delivery predictability. However, despite numerous anecdotal claims of Scrum successes in many parts of the world, a lack of empirical evidence exists.
If you think for a living, then you are a knowledge worker. And any investment you make in learning Lean-Agile methods will be the best investment you can make for your career.
Big software projects are constitutionally doomed because they're fragile. Agile may be the way to go, but what can you do to make sure your agile project doesn't become fragile?
As we enter the new year it is always interesting to reflect back on trends that we saw last year and forecast if they will continue into the new year.
There is a difficulty tracking many Scrum teams in any typical organization. Although each Scrum team has its own work area with boards and charts, it is easier for managers to look at all teams and sprints in one place. In this article, the writer will explain how his team helped model and create a board that showed all Scrum teams and their work in one simple place--and how this visualization uncovered problems and bottlenecks.
You're planning to move away from Waterfall and adopt Agile in your organization. This article offers some steps you can take as you make the transition.
On the surface, it would appear quite easy to transition an organization to Agile, but you shouldn't underestimate the strength of resistance you may encounter. Not many people have worked in a truly Agile environment, so there may be a fear of the unknown or "how it's done", and a compulsion to stick with what they know — i.e., Waterfall.