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Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals

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Saturday, 09 June 2007 10:29
A phrase heard often in Agile discussions is "let the product lead."  Applied correctly, these four words powerfully focus an Agile team's energy directly on work that provides the highest business value.  Traditional engineering practices that focus on process often divert a technology team's energy away from quick delivery of business value, and toward design of infrastructure and architecture.  Deep focus on technology decisions breaks the line-of-sight with business goals, creates opportunities for over-engineering, and requires complex tracing activities which ultimately slow the process.  By focusing on implementing working software quickly, Agile methodologies provide feedback loops to constrain the end result so that no effort is wasted on unneeded features or over-engineered architectures and frameworks.  By quickly delivering working software, the Agile approach makes line-of-sight with overall business goals achievable and visible.  This article will spotlight best practices which result in an Agile team keeping its "eye on the prize" where the prize is a pleased customer, receiving high-quality capabilities delivered quickly in prioritized small increments.
Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals
Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals A phrase heard often in Agile discussions is "let the product lead."  Applied correctly, these four words powerfully focus an Agile team's energy directly on work that provides the highest business value.  Traditional engineering practices that focus on process often divert a technology team's energy away from quick delivery of business value, and toward design of infrastructure and architecture.  Deep focus on technology decisions breaks the line-of-sight with business goals, creates opportunities for over-engineering, and requires complex tracing activities which ultimately slow the process.  By focusing on implementing working software quickly, Agile methodologies provide feedback loops to constrain the end result so that no effort is wasted on unneeded features or over-engineered architectures and frameworks.  By quickly delivering working software, the Agile approach makes line-of-sight with overall business goals achievable and visible.  This article will spotlight best practices which result in an Agile team keeping its "eye on the prize" where the prize is a pleased customer, receiving high-quality capabilities delivered quickly in prioritized small increments.
Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals
Eye on the Prize: Best Practices for Aligning Agile Efforts with Business Goals
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