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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? ” A lot more is possible than was imagined when “Agile” was first defined.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

Are stakeholders involved in defining the examples? It isn’t reasonable for (say) ten development teams to share (say) two statically-defined test environments whose configurations differ wildly from production. I often hear people say they can’t afford to create consistently-defined environments throughout the pipeline.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge. Mathematical and Science Writings (#MathSci).