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Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. My colleagues and I from BusinessWeek gave a presentation last week covering our agile planning and development process and ended with an intro to SCRUM by @silviogalea. Roughly the same time, @jurgenappelo posted an excellent, easy to follow slideshare on The Zen of SCRUM 1.0.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

My first instinct was to provide a technical answer, but then I quickly realized that if I answered the question that way to the board of directors, I’d be shown the virtual elevator down to the CTO morgue. Sometimes you need a spark to create a sense of urgency, but don’t take this approach too far.

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Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice. agile software development. (56).

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development. Also, see my Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies.

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Getting Enterprise Executives to buy in to an Agile Development.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile practices (SCRUM, XP , etc.) When we started TripConnect , we followed agile methodologies even though the first version of the product was developed offshore. Those priorities pretty much set us down a path of agile development. Labels: about me , agile software development , enterprise 2.0 , it management , startup cto.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Measuring actual costs turns out to be an easier process assuming that you have a tool to manage the backlog and a scrum master running daily standups. Use the agile backlog tool to keep a running total of Actual Hours per story. Labels: agile planning , agile software development , cio , it management , project management.

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Maturing agile development without a maturity model - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Maturing agile development without a maturity model. In many cases, maturity models are just tools used by consultants and sales engineers selling expensive ‘how to’ guides to senior IT executives. Efficiency – Consider what tools and processes the IT organization needs to improve its productivity? about me. (33).

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