Agile information systems development methods have become popular; however, which specific agile practice to use remains unclear. We argue that three types of agile practices exist—for management, development, and standards—which affect the customer responsiveness of software teams dif ...
Agile project management focuses on continuous improvement, scope flexibility, team input, and delivering essential quality products. Agile project management methodologies include scrum, extreme programming (XP), and lean, among others. These methodologies all adhere to the Agile Manifest ...
The Enterprise Architecture discipline defines the enterprise architecture of an organization. It consists of models that define it, reference architectures, prototypes and working models that demonstrate how it works, and frameworks that make it easier to use. An enterprise architecture m ...
Agile Project Management is built around a flexible approach. Team members work in short bursts on small-scale but functioning releases Add to My Personal Learning Plan of a product. They then test each release against customers' needs, instead of aiming for a single final result that is o ...
The more traditional cumbersome methodologies like waterfall typically require entire project groups to meet and discuss full project goals throughout each phase. Agile, however, uses smaller more focused groups that meet more frequently to discuss very specific goals, making it easier to ...
How can an organization effectively transform from a traditional waterfall to an agile delivery approach?This paper covers how our project delivery processes and team structure were adapted to provide value more efficiently to our internal customers, discussing challenges and how they were ...
Projects in the near future will be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional waterfall processes to better address the speed to market, product innovation, and financial challenges that organizations face. The project managers who learn how to merge Agile with Waterfall methodologies ...
In this paper, the authors present their hypothesis that in the future, projects will use a combination of agile practices, with a traditional approach, usually associated with waterfall projects. This should become the dominant successful methodology, even despite the pressure for quick d ...
Over the course of a project, you'll make hundreds of decisions. And one of the first decisions you'll make is choosing which project management methodology to follow. From Agile to Scrum to Waterfall to Kanban, there are a variety of different ...
The word "transparency" can be easily misused. Even dictatorship regimes are convinced they are transparent. Companies advocate transparency while they dis-empower their teams for mediocrity. I have more examples to share, but the point here is: What does transparency mean in Agile? Is ...