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Be pragmatic, not dogmatic

Eric D. Brown

“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.” ” That’s dogmatic. Not every project requires a gantt chart or a daily 15min standup meeting.

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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.

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Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. 2 Stressing the Cloud

Cloud Musings

Luckily, an increasing number of organizations are making adherence to these guidelines and standards a requirement for both internal development organizations and outsourced application development vendors. Dwight is a Certified Scrum Master and teaches courses in Architecture, Requirements, and IVV&T.

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How to Build a Organization with High Changeability

Future of CIO

Agile is a mindset that drives strategic and tactical decisions to achieve goals with a set of agile guidelines. Do middle-level managers act as process police or guidelines provider? An agile organization is one that is open to change and can adapt readily when change is needed.

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

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. Will you make all projects follow an agile practice, or will you set guidelines on when to use agile vs. other practices? Then follow a guide for starting agile. product lines?

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4 Methods to Achieve Agility in Software Development

Flexagon

If, like me, you have worked in organizations that have successfully implemented scrum within your product teams, you are familiar with the scaling challenges across teams: managing dependencies, aligning and coordinating work, maintaining consistency and achieving agility at scale. maintain a prioritized backlog.

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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.