An Enterprise Strategy for Introducing Agile: Part 3 – Impediments: People, Process and Technology
[Update: This is part 3 of a four part series. Here are links to part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.] In the first two articles in this series I discussed an overall road-map for introducing Agile methodologies into an enterprise [1] followed by a plan [2]. Both of these articles only considered … Read more
An Enterprise Strategy for Introducing Agile: Part 2 – A plan of Action
[Update: This is part 2 of a four part series. Here are links to part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.] As Agile methodologies gain wider acceptance, they will be taken up by larger numbers of organizations. The question of how to introduce an Agile methodology into an enterprise with the least amount … Read more
An Enterprise Strategy for Introducing Agile: Part 1 – The Path to an Agile Enterprise
[Update: This is part 1 of a four part series. Here are links to part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.] Once introduced into an organization Agile software development practices can spread quicker than can be controlled. Without a strategy Agile projects can emerge with different or even conflicting approaches. This is not … Read more
Where are we (or Life on the Pukinskis Graph)?
In the realm of software development there is a board spectrum of different processes currently in use; from the very complex where each and every change to is analysted and designed many different different ways, to chaos where changes occurs without control or testing. My good friends Alex Pukinskis, Jason Lewis, and I were discussing … Read more
A Generalized Framework for Agile Roles and Responsibilities
So you’ve started you’re Agile project and the first thing that a team member asks you is “What is my Role and what are my Responsibilities?” At this point it’s common for Agile practitioners to start waxing philosophically about shared responsibility, the advantages of being multi-skilled and how responsibility should be shared by the team. … Read more
