By Dean Leffingwell | Co-founder and Chief Methodologist – Scaled Agile, Inc. The world’s economy and the health and welfare of society as a whole is increasingly dependent on software and systems. In support of this need, systems builders are creating increasingly complex software and cyber-physical systems—systems of unprecedented scope and complexity—with requirements for
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By Angela Johnson | Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Transformation Coach Why do Agile or Scrum trainers seem to walk in “off the street” and immediately pinpoint the people problems? Clients and students repeatedly ask, “How do you know that?” “Who is giving you this information?” They are dumbfounded when the response is,
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By Hubert Smits | Management Consultant, SmitsMC LLC “The rules of the game in new product development are changing. Many companies have discovered that it takes more than the accepted basics of high quality, low cost, and differentiation to excel in today’s competitive market. It also takes speed and flexibility.” Takeuchi and Nonaka wrote this
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BY PAUL BARNES – HEAD OF PROJECTS @ TOPTAL One of the hardest things to do in software development is to determine how long and how much it will take to deliver a new software product. Should it be so hard? The answer is not straightforward. Software costs estimation is inherently difficult, and humans are
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BY GORAN PRIJIC – FREELANCE SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ TOPTAL When a software developer hears news about a “new JavaScript framework” or a “new IDE,” he doesn’t need to ask more questions to clarify what it’s about. But if he hears about a “new agile framework,” he will likely do the Homer-Simpsonian nodding, pretending that he
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By Tom Friend, FLEX Coach, CSP, ACP, AHF, PSM, CSM | Business Agility Consultant, IIL Today, we are on the cusp of the third wave of the Internet. A vast ocean of opportunity lies before us. The first wave was creating the cable and switches that became the backbone of the World Wide Web. The second
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By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, GWCPM, SCPM | Executive Vice President – Enterprise Solutions, IIL Years ago I worked with a guy whose last name was Dunn. My boss used to call him “not Dunn” because he never seemed to be able to complete anything. That always made me laugh, but in
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By Keith Wilson, B.Comm., PMP, MCT, MCTS | Senior Trainer and Consultant, IIL Can Microsoft Project be used for Agile projects? Yes! Customizable fields and custom groups can be used effectively to create an Agile template. Custom fields allow you to add project-specific information, which can be used to filter or group tasks to provide different
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