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Agile Release Planning Best Practices
Our clients often ask us: how do you know when to release a software product or website? No product manager wants to release if functionality is broken or not usable, yet good business mandates regular progress to users and stakeholders. How … Continue reading
Change Management for Agile Projects
Through our years of designing, developing, and implementing knowledge and information management technologies, we’ve consistently regarded user understanding and buy-in as key criteria for success. The change management profession aims to reduce the purported 70% failure rate on large projects … Continue reading
Agile Knowledge Management
Companies in nearly every industry are adopting Agile techniques to enhance IT projects, manage marketing initiatives, and manage their business. If you are passionate about Knowledge Management (KM), you may wonder how Agile and KM fit together. We at Enterprise … Continue reading
IV&V for Agile Projects
The Federal government is transitioning more and more projects to Agile development methodologies. Agile’s success with commercial projects has led to greater adoption of Agile in the Federal Government. The move to Agile poses a number of challenges for government … Continue reading
Using Agile Principles to Deliver Real Business Value at Scale
Delivering real business value from systems development efforts, even using agile approaches, turns out to be a formidable challenge especially in larger enterprises. Case studies of failed deliveries abound and too often reach general public notoriety. This talk shows organic … Continue reading
Agile Business Value Teams
Information Technology practitioners have made great strides improving delivery using Agile concepts. Development Teams are now faster, more empowered, and motivated using frameworks like Scrum. A key to this success is that delivery teams work closely with the business through … Continue reading
Agile Roadmaps for Product Selection
Selecting new enterprise software products is one of the most challenging and potentially high risk tasks many organizations undertake. How often have you gone through a lengthy purchasing process only to find that the choice you made is not the … Continue reading
Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #5 Agile is Only for Software Development
As I’ve written previously, it is exciting to see more and more organizations adopting Agile development processes but there remains a great deal of confusion regarding what Agile is and how it can best be actualized. This post addresses the … Continue reading
Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #4 Agile Only Works When People are Co-located
As I’ve written previously, it is exciting to see more and more organizations adopting Agile development processes, as Agile helps organizations speed time to market, lower project risk and improve relations between business and IT. In my continuing efforts to … Continue reading
Top 5 Agile Myths: Myth #3 Agile is Just the Latest Project Management Fad
As I’ve written previously, more and more organizations are adopting Agile development processes, but there remains a great deal of confusion regarding what Agile is and what it can do. This post is the continuation of my series to quash … Continue reading