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8 September 2015 Comments Off on Tips on Gathering Good Software Requirements PMO
Author: Andrea Reese Hurst At the request of an engineer who I wrote requirements for, I jotted down some tips for good requirements gathering in a software setting. Here they are, a bit tidied up: Identify the end users, the project owners, and other stakeholders who influence the success or failure of this effort. Schedule […]
18 August 2015 Comments Off on Tips For Writing Agile Requirements PMO
Author: Andrea Reese Hurst Coming from a waterfall development environment, I was used to polishing a requirements document to the nth degree before handing it off to development, but in an Agile environment, this put me behind schedule, and didn’t even make good user stories. Here are a few things I learned while working in Agile […]
27 July 2015 Comments Off on Scrum Master, Project Manager Product Owner, What’s the Difference? PMO
Author: Karen Stackhouse I’m often asked about the difference between a Scrum Master, a Project Manager and Product Owner. They all are very distinct roles and are interconnected and dependent on one other. So, what’s the difference? In Agile development there is typically a Product Owner and a Scrum Master. Depending on the organization, a Project […]
20 July 2015 Comments Off on Holding a productive Scrum Meeting PMO
Author: Mike Chatwin I have heard horror stories from colleagues of daily scrum meetings that run over an hour… STOP IT IMMEDIATELY! A daily meeting running this long becomes a roadblock to several of the basic principles of the Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org): – Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery […]
17 March 2015 Comments Off on Five Issues Faced By Large IT Organizations News, PMO, QA
It is common to read articles and posts which say that the issues that organizations face when developing software are bigger than ever before. However, in many ways we face many of the same issues now as those that were common in 1975 when Fred Brooks wrote his famous essay on issues facing software development […]
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