An organization attempting to use agile processes at scale must be outcome driven – without intentionality the system of delivery breaks down and operates no better than waterfall.
Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Process Improvement / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / ROI / Software development / User Stories
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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 […]
Administrivia / Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / ROI / Software development / Use Cases
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Most Engaging Articles of 2009
Engagement – that’s what this whole product management blogging thing is about. Check out what Tyner Blain readers found to be the most engaging articles in 2009.
Project Management / Software development
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Advanced PERT Estimation
Creating a PERT estimate for a single task is both easy and straightforward. Creating an estimate for a set of tasks is still easy, but requires a little bit of math. Combining PERT estimates for tasks is easy, but not as obvious. Roll up your sleeves and dive in.
Agile / Communication / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Software development
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Stakeholders in a Barrel
There’s really only one way to travel down a waterfall – in a barrel. A lot of people died this way, but some survived. Software projects have been predominantly waterfall projects since the start of software projects. And stakeholders rode down those projects, basically in a barrel. The people riding […]
Communication / Consulting / Project Management / Writing
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Effective Status Reports
An effective status report is one that Instantly conveys the state of the project. Creates a minimum of overhead for the project team. Gets you help when you need it, and latitude when you don’t. Is fun / energizing to the author and the readers. An effective status report is […]
Agile / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / ROI / Software development
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Successful Products: Lucky or Intentional?
Is your product successful because you were lucky, or because you were methodical and intentional? Do you want to build a plan where you are dependent on good fortune, or do you want to make your own “luck?” Both approaches work, but only one makes sense as an intention. Slide […]
Project Management
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Recycling An Article on Timeboxing Your Project Plan
We’re dedicating our “blogging time†this week to doing some infrastructure upgrades – we have to address some security issues on the site. Until we get through these changes, we’ll be recycling some of our existing content. For our recent readers, it will be “new to you†and for our […]
Consulting / Project Management / Software development
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Outsourcing Debate – Two Guys Talk it Out
Bill Miller, who writes You Want it When?, a blog focused on improving the way you manage software development and I had a debate over email about outsourcing. We looked at pro’s and con’s, and our discussion centered around the best outsourcing model, and what the ramifications of outsourcing really […]