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Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail. In a traditional development practice, a product manager writes a long document describing the software requirements. Hopefully the document is diagram heavy, clear and concise. The developer listens, writes a few notes and goes off developing.

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Simple Agile Product Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

These five individuals often benefit from a sixth, the Project Manager , who orchestrates this conversation and has the role to drive the team to a shared understanding of the priorities, feasibility, and approach. The Project Manager needs a point of escalation if he/she believes the team isnt closing in on a shared understanding.

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9 crucial factors for choosing where to hire developers

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Technology stacks : Determine if developers have experience with the technologies and tools (e.g., AWS, Docker, Git) integral to your project’s development. Time zone compatibility Collaboration and communication are vital for project success, making time zone compatibility an essential factor.

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Three Steps to Big Data Discovery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

A top down approach would attempt to document databases, data flows, business rules, data quality, transformations, and application integration. While some of this is clearly needed and important for IT organizations to develop, the task of developing and maintaining rigorous documentation is daunting. it management. (34).

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How To Get a Team to Think Agile - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Its a smart team, but they are immediately jumping into solving problems and developing artifacts. The problem is, using agile process (scrum specifically) for planning, problem solving, developing a strategy, documenting an architecture requires some discipline and thinking a little differently. agile software development. (56).

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Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms

Social, Agile and Transformation

Here are my top ten attributes of agile platforms: Fast and easy to learn - It lets average developers learn and be productive with short ramp up time. It has a combination of tools and documentation that lets my whole team start using it quickly. Labels: agile software development , cio , innovation. crisis management. (3).

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How Effective is your Big Data Implementation?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Here is one approach to get started: Develop a Big Data Analysis Catalog - This catalog, would define some of the recurring analysis performed by someone (possibly a data scientist) in the organization. You can do this in an unstructured way with a document or wiki page, or more structured by defining a child table in the Analysis Catalog.

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