Contrary to a popular belief, though Lean was originated from the Japanese manufacturing industry, today it can be applied to every business and every process. Being Lean means ensuring everything you do in your work processes adds value. This philosophy has turned Lean into a widely-used approach to identify wasteful practices, reduce costs, and increase quality. Read More
Our daily lives depend on complex software-intensive systems, from banking to transportation and medicine. A software-intensive system is, by definition, any system where software influences to a large extend the design, construction, deployment, and evolution of the system as a whole. A few examples include embedded systems for automotive applications, telecommunications, wireless ad hoc systems, business applications with an emphasis on web services, etc.
First introduced by Jeff Patton in 2005, story mapping has become a popular practice to visually communicate the content of a product backlog and provide a more structured approach to release planning. Unlike writing a dull 50-page requirement document, story mapping is an engaging activity that joins the efforts of all participants in collecting requirements and deciding where to start and what to focus on. Read More
As we all know, sometimes the solution to a project issue can be really hard to find. Team members can come up with many bright ideas in their own mind, so it’s useful to sit down together, identify the problem, verbalise solutions and see what sticks. Read More
Today, most of the projects are dynamic and complex. If you control several projects in the same time, as many companies do, then you should have tools and capabilities to track the overall progress. In order to manage all these projects, you, as a leader for the project execution – should be able to keep track on all issues. You can perform these tracking using e-mails, formal and informal meetings, status reports, and sometimes – a combination of these, based on the practices and the habits in your organization. Read More
Today we can often hear the phrase: “Open source Scrum”. Inexperienced developers may think that it is about a particular kind of Scrum methodology. However, this opinion is inaccurate. Open source Scrum is nothing but a type of Scrum project management tools. Read More
Almost all IT project managers focus on building or improving applications. Organizations rely on reliable and high-quality applications to serve clients and maintain operations. If you are in the software business, this article is for you. Here we will dive into the application delivery context and explain how you can use agile to speed up this process.
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The testing team usually consists of a small number of people from your project team. They will follow your instructions (as the project manager) for guidance on what to expect from the testing in this project, and how should they perform the tests. In this article, we present 5 relevant things to remember about your testers before they get started with their work. Read More
Project teams which use Kanban style boards to speed up innovation and improve their development process very often realize that they have made an error.
Product teams start using Kanban with a clear goal – they need to get software delivered and keep product and engineering moving ahead. Teams need a lot of tools to help them visualize work assignments among the team members, and keep teams aligned on building what matters. This is important in every project today. Read More
