2. Inverted channels priorities Background I’ve seen many teammates taking to each other using an inverted priority for the following channels: Phone [Direct] Conversation Emails or other text-based channels Any time a person is involved within a negotiation (requirements, specifications, bugs reports, …); that person will prefer to talk all others involved with the most…
Here is a list of 32 practices and approaches identified as effective for applying Agile to software development projects. This list is based on an analysis of practices identified by experienced Agile users. The analysis, and resulting report, is product of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the report can be found here “Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying…
Almost two months ago (July 2012), the GAO published a report called: “Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying Agile Methods”. Where they list 32 Agile Adoption best practices identified by evaluating the agile implementation on several organizations. In this post I want to highlight several Key-Points found within the report. Motivation Why GAO Did This Study Federal agencies depend on…
1. “To many mind” -Nobutada: Please forgive, too many mind. -Nathan Algren: Too many mind? -Nobutada: Hai. Mind the sword, mind the people watch, mind the enemy, too many mind… [pause] No mind. [The Last Samurai (Wiki Quote Org.)] The problem Communication channels of software teams often starts to wildly swell, because of a poor…
