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Be pragmatic, not dogmatic

Eric D. Brown

Another aspect of pragmatic vs dogmatic that I see often is that of project management. How many times have you heard (or said!) “well…we need to build a gantt chart before the project can start” or “that’s not how the PMBOK” says to do it or ‘Scrum requires us to do X, Y and Z in that order.”

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

“We haven’t won by reducing governance and control, but by seeing that it’s important to set up frameworks, with clear principles and guidelines, so teams know what to do,” says Altehed. “We The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

Make sure the business project is appropriate (I will cover in a future post) and make sure its sponsors are willing to participate in the program. Your coach will probably have a program, but heres one on How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps. Also, see my Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. crisis management. (3).

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How to Measure Software Quality?

Future of CIO

As quality, especially software quality is contextual and relative, but still, there can be set of guidelines which can help the team to follow the best practices to measure software quality accordingly. For a development manager/Scrum Master - it may mean how is the code developed and what are the deployment standards.