Archive for March, 2010
Up until very recently agile project management was seen as a great approach to software development……..for small projects. Even now, especially in the enterprise space (SAP, Siebel other EPR’s), agile is still seen by some as small-fry, a fun approach for building web sites. I was recently speaking with an old colleague from Deloitte, who [...]
A common fear about agile is that it makes the job of managing scope difficult for your project. This can be true, however, a golden rule of agile software development is that the scope of each iteration or sprint must be completely locked-down once it begins. This means no new requirements, no swapping of requirements [...]
Quite often we get asked by those new to agile project management what exactly an iteration or sprint is? The first thing is that a sprint and an iteration are essentially the same thing, a “sprint” is the term used by scrum, which is the most popular flavour of agile project management. You’ll find that [...]