Thursday, June 12, 2008

Requirements, requirements, requirements

Is it possible to implement an agile project without overhauling your requirements process? I think not. The key economic benefits flow from agile methods ability to reduce "work in progress" compared to traditional methods [Anderson]. This means specifiers must take a much lighter approach to distant requirements and have much greater involvement, for example as "on-site customers" or product owners, in requirements currently being implemented.

[Anderson] Agile Management, Prentice-Hall (2003)

Breakout sessions that ensure everyone in the meeting meets everyone else

Lockdown finds us doing more and more in online meetings, whether it's business, training, parties or families. It also finds us spendin...