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When ‘General Agile' Isn't Enough - Why Scrum Wins in the Enterprise PDF Print E-mail

from the Agile Journal: Each week, I find myself using Jenga, Hasbro's wooden building block game, as an analogy for introducing agile into the enterprise. Few topics are more hotly debated throughout the software development community than how to apply the simple values of agile to big business. Many approaches favor knocking down the entire Jenga tower to start from scratch with an entirely new foundation of values and practices. Others opt for the comfort of traditional management processes, with some agile practices — like pair programming and stand-up meetings — sprinkled on top...  

 
Introducing IBM Rational Self Check for Software Teams PDF Print E-mail
from The Rational Edge: Read how the new IBM Rational Self Check for Software Teams can help you implement self assessments to help improve team agility. Instead of metrics, and or assessments performed by those outside the team, Self Check empowers software engineers by allowing them to define and discuss their own significant data and improve their process.
 
Governing your value stream: A foundation for lower IT costs and increased returns PDF Print E-mail
from The Rational Edge: This article explains how the formation of a value stream through an IT organization (the linking of value chains and supply chains) is accomplished through the application of deliberate IT governance and project and portfolio management practices.
 
Staying Agile in an uncertain economy PDF Print E-mail
from The Rational Edge: If you're experiencing a climate where management may be pulling back from Agile and moving towards more traditional, plan-driven methods, you will want to be able to defend the economic benefits of Agile with sound, management-oriented business cases. This article describes how.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 July 2008 )
 
A Project Manager's RUP in review PDF Print E-mail
from The Rational Edge: Read how the IBM Rational Unified Process, or RUP, complements the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and how project managers well-versed in PMBOK can use and understand RUP to support the Project Manager (PM) role.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 July 2008 )
 
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