incremental delivery – Tyner Blain

Getting requirements documents approved can be a pain in the butt. Why do we need to do it in the first place? The approval process is more than just reaching concensus or creating a contract. Done correctly, it presents an opportunity to get more inputs from stakeholders.

Agile / Communication / Process Improvement / Project Management / Software development / Testing

Crossing The Desert With Bad Project Planning

Posted on: January 4, 2007July 25, 2023

Johanna Rothman recently wrote an article with a poignant introduction: “A project team focuses on an interim milestone, works like the devil to meet that milestone. They meet the milestone, look up, and realize they’re not at the end of the project–they still have to finish the darn thing. They’re living the Crossing the Desert syndrome.” Fixing it isn’t enough – how do we prevent it from happening?

Agile / Requirements Models / Use Cases

Incremental Delivery and Evolving Use Cases

Posted on: December 12, 2006February 3, 2007

Amazon.com started by selling books. Their initial use case was “Sell books online.” The vision was always “Sell everything” – hence the name. But they started with a simple use case and evolved it.

Product Management

Superhero Product Managers

Posted on: October 3, 2006

Product managers are the leaders in organizations that lead by unfluence, adapt to changing circumstances, understand domains and markets, and communicate effectively with executives, customers, and development. They set scope, understand value, prioritize and define direction. They leap tall buildings in a single bound…

Agile / Process Improvement / Requirements gathering / Software development

Agile Argument

Posted on: July 28, 2006July 28, 2006

Another challenge to a premise of agile comes in a well assembled argument from Tony at Seilevel, in his article, Agile…again.