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Larger Scale Agile Development - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Larger Scale Agile Development. Back in January, we had one team at BusinessWeek practicing agile software development. The team was successful completing iterations, demoing to stakeholders, and releasing product to a growing audience. But we managed priority changes and integration issues to get a product out.

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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 2 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Now most teams are flexible (being agile) and will accept changes/additions, but this should be managed as an exception, not the norm. 3) Come to demos - Demos are when the team showcases the work of the iteration. Labels: agile software development , product management. agile software development. (56).

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Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Selling a product is most often "better" than having no product - What is your target demo to close ratio? How capable are your teams at developing superb user experiences? Why couldnt we get a demo? Why did they pass after demo? agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3). it management. (34).

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Getting Enterprise Executives to buy in to an Agile Development.

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Can you imagine a Startup CTO telling investors that they would spend two months on documentation and three months on development work before demoing a first version of software? We simply explained that we would be delivering software iteratively and that we would demo the results at the end of every iteration. it management.

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Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

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Then a couple of weeks ago, I saw a very compelling demo of Mark Logic , "a provider of infrastructure software for information-centric applications" (re: funding announcement ) running on EC2. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3). it management. (34). offshore development. (6). about me. (33).

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Adopting Agile Development - The role of the CIO - Social, Agile.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Invite them to demos even if they cant come. 3) Identify the initial project (s) - I dont believe in shifting multi-team organizations to agile in one shot. Labels: agile software development , cio , innovation , organizational change , product management , project management , software development.

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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Coming from a software engineering background, its very difficult to share the cultural reasons behind agile methodologies with business owners and managers. Challenging, but sweet on demo days when you see everyone sitting around discussing things back and forth. agile software development. (56). crisis management. (3).

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