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The Big Development Project: How much should it cost?
var dzone_style = '1';Picture courtesy of irene.@FlickrSome people think that agile and budgeting are incompatible. The product is ready when the product owner says it is. But before starting a...
View ArticleHow to get your agile project approved
var dzone_style = '1';There are three prerequisites for starting a project under Scrum: a product owner, a product backlog and a team to implement the features. Is that enough to get a project approved...
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Creating the Scrum Product Backlog: Start with the Users!
var dzone_style = '1';When defining a product, it’s easy to write down list of features and call it the product backlog. It’s much harder to build a product which so deeply and profoundly meets the...
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Filling the Product Backlog: Go For Excitement
var dzone_style = '1';Picture courtesy of jakuza@FlickrOnce you know who you are building the product for, the next step is to create a list of features which will excite your customers and get them to...
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Prioritizing the Product Backlog
var dzone_style = '1';Any project plan is a mixture of what the product owner wants and what the team can actually deliver. The product owner naturally wants more than the team can deliver, so s/he has...
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Finding a Partner to Trust - Using Scrum to Create an Agile RFP
var dzone_style = '1';I just finished helping a customer write an RFP (Request for Proposal) for a software development project. The customer has had some expensive experiences with waterfall style...
View ArticleFinding a Partner to Trust - Writing an Agile RFP to Outsource a SW...
var dzone_style = '1';My customer wanted to find an external partner to develop their new software product and develop using Scrum. So we needed to evaluate the potential partners, but how? The...
View ArticleFinding a Partner to Trust - Using Competitive Sprints to Select an Agile...
var dzone_style = '1';Some people would like to believe that building complex software is like going to the grocery store: pick a candy bar off of the shelf, ask what it costs and decide to buy it. You...
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