The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean? The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other.
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Agile Estimation, Prediction, and Commitment
Your boss wants a commitment. You want to offer a prediction. Agile, you say, only allows you to estimate and predict – not to commit. ”Horse-hockey!” your boss exclaims, “I want one throat to choke, and it will be yours if you don’t make a commitment and meet it.” There’s a way to keep yourself off the corporate gallows – estimate, predict, and commit – using agile principles.
This is an article about agile product management and release planning.
Posted in Agile, Business Analysis, Prioritization, Process Improvement, Product Management, Project Management, ROI, Requirements, Software development, User Stories
Tagged agile estimation, agile prediction, agile release planning, cone of uncertainty, project planning, release planning
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Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?
The maturity model approach to describing organizations and processes comes and goes out of fashion. It is a repeating framework de jour. In the game of agile jargon whack-a-mole, the agile maturity model is poking its head up again.
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Posted in Agile, Process Improvement, Product Management, Software development
Tagged agile maturity model, business agility, CMMI, maturity model, rmm
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The Impact of a Hidden Decision
Business rules are often hidden in processes as hidden decisions. Once you discover that hidden decision, how do you communicate the impact of exposing and managing the decision?
Hidden Business Rule Example
A business process is not just a sequence of steps. A business process is a series of decisions and actions. Some decisions are obvious and can be actively managed. Some decisions are hidden, and until you discover them, you can’t manage or improve them. Here is a real-world example of the discovery of a hidden enterprise decision.
Product Managers and Information Flow
Product managers are often described as the hub or center of a software development organization. Saeed Khan takes umbrage with this under-appreciative image in an awesome article about information flow, product managers, and the SDLC.
Smart Enough Systems – Interview With James Taylor
Today we recorded an interview with James Taylor, co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems, How To Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions. This book, written by James Taylor with Neil Raden comes out on Jun 29th (2007), and is available for pre-order from Amazon today. Our interview covers many of the topics in their book, with a focus on the ideas inside and the benefits you can get from applying them, in just under an hour.
CMMI and RMM One Minute Survey
See what CMMI levels and RMM levels other teams are using. Take a minute out of your day to tell us your CMMI level and RMM level. We all want to know, but we need your help – if you don’t answer, you won’t learn anything. Thanks for clicking through! And check back later to see the results as they come in.
Posted in CMMI, Polls, Process Improvement, Requirements, Software development
Tagged capability maturity model integration, cmm, cmm levels, cmm versus cmmi, CMMI, cmmi framework, cmmi level, CMMI level 1, cmmi level 2, cmmi level 3, cmmi level 4, cmmi level 5, cmmi poll, cmmi survey, managing data, requirements management, requirements management maturity, rmm, rmm framework, rmm level, rmm poll, rmm survey
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CMMI Levels and RMM Level 5 – Integrated Requirements
In our introduction to mapping RMM levels to CMMI levels, we presented background info on CMMI, introduced the IBM article on RMM levels, and posted an initial mapping structure. In this article, we will look at the definition of RMM level 5. We also look at the mapping from RMM level 5 to various CMMI levels.
Posted in CMMI, Process Improvement, Requirements, Software development
Tagged capability maturity model integration, cmm, cmm versus cmmi, CMMI, cmmi framework, CMMI level 1, cmmi level 3, cmmi level 4, cmmi level2, cmmi level5, cmmi levels, cmmi overview, intro to cmmi, managing data, requirements management, requirements management maturity, rmm, rmm framework, sei cmmi
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