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 [...]
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Quite often we get asked by those new to agile development 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 most [...]
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Whether working on Agile, Scrum or Waterfall projects, it’s really important to remember that user stories and business requirements should only serve the purpose of reminding everyone on the team of conversations and a shared understanding.
Many of us have been in the situation, especially when working on traditional waterfall projects where the requirements are looked [...]
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Santa Claus and his team of hard working elves are the latest high profile team to adopt an Agile Approach. They are believed to be the first large scale team to do so, within the Arctic Circle.
In a recent interview, Mr. Claus said “I’ve been working with this structured, heavily documented, big-bang approach for hundreds [...]
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We’re in the Agile Project Management software business. Our Project Management Software is hosted in the cloud - so we make money by charging a monthly fee to our customers. Pretty traditional business model.
Last month we decided to try something, its not a new idea, and many companies have done it before us. The idea [...]
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It was 20 years ago this week that the Berlin Wall fell. The event symbolized massive change and hope for the future. It spelled an end to years of communist indoctrination, and offered a new way of thinking to millions of people. Watching the anniversary on TV got me thinking about things that are happening [...]
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In my last blog I mentioned how important it is for Agile Teams to understand and implement effective teamwork processes. We’ve been so convinced of the importance of Agile Teamwork that we’ve teamed up with the Team Management Systems organization to help Agile Teams improve their performance. In this blog I thought I’d write about [...]
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Back in the 90’s self-managed teams were gaining popularity, but they had a high rate of failure mainly because team members lacked people skills. These ideas of self-managed teams were borrowed by the Agile movement when in 2001 they formulated a ‘new’ way of working, based on Agile principles. These principles value individuals and interactions [...]
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A little history. I am Australian, live in London, most of our customers are in the US and we have developers in both India and Australia. Over the last year with Bright Green and the last five years living away from Australia, I think I have learned a thing or two about working with a [...]
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It is with much excitement that today we announce the launch of a free version of our Agile Project Tool, Bright Green Projects.
The free version of Bright Green Projects is fully functional and will allow you to;
Capture Requirements, Issues and Risks.
Prioritize Requirements and Issues in a backlog.
Build estimates.
Plan Iterations and Releases.
Allocate [...]
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