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Archive of 2008 March
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Agile Axioms from Paul Beavers
Posted on March 31, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutPaul Beavers, Senior Director of R&D at BMC Software, has been blogging about the successful BMC agile enterprise transformation experience. Paul was a collaborator of mine on that fun project, and as a senior director, he was personally responsible...
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Meeting Deadlines: What’s wrong with this Release Plan #2? (AERP8)
Posted on March 25, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Release PlanningIn my last post, Meeting Deadlines: What's wrong with this Release Plan #1, I noted that the ability to commit to and deliver on near term deadlines is a reasonable and necessary accomplishment of a professional agile team and...
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Meeting Deadlines: What’s Wrong with this Release Plan? (AERP7)
Posted on March 23, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Release PlanningIdeally, we wouldn’t have deadlines in agile. As Tom Gilb noted “it’s as though I as a project manager weren’t allowed to know the projects end until the date arrived. The only instructions I’d get in advance would be to...
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On Agile Maturity and Hardening Iterations
Posted on March 21, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Team PracticesI've noted a teams need for an occasionally "hardening iteration" in SSA Chapter 13 as well as in a number of posts (Release Planning at Enterprise Scale: an Inside-out Narrative.) The hardening iteration is dedicated to eliminating technical debt,...
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Release Planning- Day 2 Narrative (AERP6)
Posted on March 19, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Release PlanningNote: This is part of a series of posts (AERP1-n) highlighting the critical role that release planning plays in achieving enterprise agility. (These are organized under the Release Planning Category on this blog.) In my last post, Release Planning...
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Anti-patterns in Enterprise Agility
Posted on March 14, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutBased on my continuing experiences in applying agility at enterprise scale, I've observed a few anti-patterns (common but ineffective practices) that appear fairly frequently. If not addressed, any one of these could seriously limit the productivity and quality benefits that...
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Enterprise Agility Tips from “Waltzing with Bears”
Posted on March 11, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutI admit to coming pretty late to DeMarco and Lister's interesting (2003) book on risk management in software projects entitled "Waltzing with Bears". While the book wasn't written as a text on agile software development practices and not all...
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Building Scalable, Robust Architecture with Agile: Lessons Learned at Amazon
Posted on March 11, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile ArchitectureFor any out there worried about whether or not large scale systems can be build with emergent (or intentionally emergent) architecture, I found the following post on the "High Scalability" blog by Todd Huff. http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture. In this post, Todd...
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Release Planning at Enterprise Scale – An Inside-Out Narrative
Posted on March 10, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Release PlanningSome of you may have been following the series I've been posting on Release Planning at Enterprise Scale. This series of posts is aggregated under blog the category "Release Planning" and identified as (AERP1-n.) You may find it most helpful...
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Who Can Afford to Say they are NOT Agile?
Posted on March 5, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutIn a recent post (Agile Adoption on the Rise? Problems Ahead), Pete Behrens notes that along with an increase in agile awareness comes an increase in the risk of what it means...
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