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Project Vision - Don’t Even Start Without One

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

It’s amazing to me how many projects start up without a clear vision. I’m not talking about an idea. I’m talking about a no kidding vision. And, no, I’m not picking on those who start projects on the side or just for fun. I’m picking on the those of us who are involved with projects [...]

Agile and Estimates and Contracts! Oh My!

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Over the last six months, I’ve been mulling over one of those subjects that has often been a stumbling block for IT providers considering adoption of agile for their customers’ software development projects. The dilemma revolves around contracts and estimating projects. The two tend to go together. Once you have one figured out it seems [...]

Oxymoron: Enterprise Agile Project Management Software

Monday, August 18th, 2008

My favorite agile software development topic of them all — tools. More specifically, agile project management tools. If you’re old school, you bust out some index cards, some butcher paper, some writing utensils, and you get to work. If you’re trying to use one of the simplest of agile project management software tools (that [...]

Death of a User Story

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

In my last post I wrote about user stories and how it’s easy to write a user story and forget to include the value statement.  Now that we’re all writing user stories with value statements, I thought it would be interesting to look at another phenomenon I’ve seen far too often when it comes to [...]

So That…

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

One of the most overlooked parts of user stories is the content that follows those two little words, “so that.”  I’ve found that we (those of us working on agile projects) tend to do a good job of writing user stories until it gets to those two little words.  For example, let’s say the iPhone [...]

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