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A Manifesto for Agile Software Developers
The Agile Software Development Manifesto© is an intentionally streamlined expression of the core values of agile project management. Use this manifesto as a guide to implement agile methodologies in your [more…]
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How to Assess and Integrate Product Changes in an Agile Project
Welcoming change in an agile project helps you create the best product possible. However, integrating new requirements or suggestions means evaluating and prioritizing those requirements and updating the [more…]
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What Is Agile Management?
Agile is a descriptive term for a number of project development and management techniques and methods. Agile project management is an empirical project management approach. In other words, you do something [more…]
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The Four Components of an Agile User Story
The project requirements in a process using agile methodologies can be understood and expressed as user stories. A user story is a simple description of a product requirement in terms of what that requirement [more…]
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The Cycle of Feedback and the Agile Sprint Review
Along with demonstrating the scrum team’s finished work, an agile sprint review meeting enables stakeholders to provide feedback on that work. This cycle of feedback repeats throughout the agile project [more…]
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The Function of the Scrum and Sprint within an Agile Project
Scrum, the most popular agile framework in software development, is an iterative approach that has at its core the sprint — the scrum term for iteration. Scrum teams use inspection throughout an agile [more…]
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Agile Project Management Events
Most projects have stages. Agile projects include seven events for product development. These events are meetings and stages and are described in the following list: [more…]
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Four Steps to Creating an Agile Product Roadmap
The product roadmap is an overall view of the product's requirements and a valuable tool for planning and organizing the journey of product development. The product owner creates the product roadmap with [more…]
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Agile Management and High-Tech Communications
When agile scrum team members work in different places, you need to set up sophisticated, high-tech communication methods to create a sense of connectedness. When determining which types of high-tech communication [more…]
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Agile Management and Procurement Practices
The Agile Manifesto values customer collaboration over contract negotiation which sets an important tone for procurement relationships on agile projects. The Agile Manifesto sets forth the idea that a [more…]
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Agile Management Communication Methods
To manage communication on agile projects, you need to understand how different agile communication methods work and how to use them together. You also need to know why status on an agile project is different [more…]
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How to Choose Agile Management Team Members
Choosing the right people to work on an agile management team is important to an agile project's success, especially for your first agile project. Desirable characteristics for team members overlap a bit [more…]
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How to Plan an Agile Sprint Meeting
When you’re working within an agile management framework, you accomplish discrete tasks within the framework of a sprint. On the first day of each sprint — often a Monday morning — the scrum team holds [more…]
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How to Structure an Agile Sprint Retrospective Meeting
Agile sprint retrospectives are an important component of moving an agile project forward, so it helps to have these meetings in a structured format. Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, authors of [more…]
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How Agile Management Methods Make Projects Work Better
Agile project management methodologies help you produce successful projects. Recent widespread adoption of agile development methods has seen the dramatic reduction of project failure rates. Key areas [more…]
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Four Steps to Defining Your Product Vision with Agile Management
The first stage in an agile project is defining your product vision. The product vision statement is an elevator pitch — a quick summary — to communicate how your product supports the company's or organization's [more…]
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Product Development within an Agile Management Framework
During the product-development phase of an agile management project, most of the activity naturally falls to the development team. The product owner continues to work with the development team on an as-needed [more…]
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The Agile Scrum Master and Identifying Roadblocks
In an agile managed project, a major part of the scrum master’s roles is to manage and help resolve roadblocks the scrum team identifies. Roadblocks are anything that thwarts a team member from working [more…]
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Ten Benefits of Agile Project Management
Agile project management provides numerous benefits to organizations, project teams, and products. Key benefits and how to maximize them: [more…]
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How to Create an Agile User Story in Three Steps
Create a user story to help keep your agile project and scrum team on point and on target. An agile user story is a simple description of a product requirement in terms of what that requirement must accomplish [more…]
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How to Use Agile Artifacts for Scope Management
From the vision statement through the sprint plan, all the artifacts in agile project management support you in your scope management efforts. Decompose requirements progressively as features rise to the [more…]
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How to Manage Quality with Agile Management Methodologies
In a project using agile methodologies, development teams have the primary responsibility for managing quality. Other members of the scrum team help control quality — product owners provide clarification [more…]
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Agile Project Management Roles
It takes a cooperative team of employees to complete a project. Agile project teams are made up of many people and include the following five roles: [more…]
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Agile Project Management Artifacts
Project progress needs to be measurable. Agile project teams often use six main artifacts, or deliverables, to develop products and track progress, as listed here: [more…]
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Applying Agile Management Value 1: Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and Tools
The first core value of the Agile Manifesto is to value individuals and interactions over processes and tools. When you allow each person to contribute unique value to your software development project [more…]
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