Agile Best Practices – Scaling Best Practices for large organizations While most teams can start using agile practices, such as Scrum and XP, they often run into hurtles when adoption is extended to other parts of the organization. Most often … Continue reading
In a follow up to an earlier post regarding, Succeeding with your First Agile Pilot Project, posted on February 19, 2012 by rfeggins, Have coached several additional teams over the last few months and wanted to share some addition lessons that … Continue reading
Agile methodologies is a collection of lightweight software development approaches (some would call them “best practices”) that evolved in the mid-1990s and early 2000s in reaction to heavy weight waterfall processes common in most organizations. Common agile methodologies include Scrum, … Continue reading
Successful agile transformations often times require successful agile pilot projects. Often time a successful initial pilot is the most critical step early in a successful enterprise agile adoption. If the pilot project is a success then the organization has a … Continue reading
Picking an Agile Coach is often a trying task for most organizations. What is an Agile Coach and what qualities make a good one. These are just some of the common questions most organizations have. As it takes time to … Continue reading
Retrospectives – “What purpose do they server?” Many small to medium size projects teams have successfully adopted agile practices such as Scrum but some agile teams do fail. Often as not they fail because of factors outside their control but … Continue reading
Contrary to popular opinion, not every IT project can successfully adopt agile practices. Location of resources, team structure, corporate culture and even technology used, can all play a key factor in determining which development practices will work in an organization. … Continue reading
Written by Reedy Feggins, IBM RTC 3.0 uses three different attributes to help teams determine which work items should be done during the sprint / iteration. These attributes are: Priority, Ranking and Complexity which are covered in detail in the … Continue reading
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Written by Reedy Feggins, IBM Work items are the fundamental mechanism in Rational Team Concert (RTC) used to coordinate, and track development tasks.[1] RTC provides several out-of-the-box work items types including Epic, Story, Task and Defect. Each work item has … Continue reading
What is the default priority generally assigned? It was suggested to me that the default should be medium. We may need to provide some guidance on what constitutes a high, medium versus a low priority ranking. Yes we recommend using … Continue reading
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