Greg Starling's Agile Development, Millennials and Social Technology Blog Archives: Managing Projects
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Starting A Startup
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain There are a lot of people out there giving advice on how you can start your business. I’m not smart enough to be giving advice though so I’ll just tell you how I went about starting a startup. The short version is Fun Panda [...]
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Two Easy Steps To Deliver Projects Quicker
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. – Olin Miller Here’s a quick heads up. That six month project you just started – it’s going to take you seven months. If you’re clever and scheduled it for seven months – it’s going to take you [...]
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Hey Look, It’s Stress! Managing the Unmanageable Workload
"Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise." – Thomas Gray I’m starting to feel for Atlas. Sure, he was condemned to bear the heavens upon his shoulders, and I’m just trying to manage an IT workload. But the crushing feeling of no end in sight has to make us brothers in arms. I’m [...]
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No Product No Value
“One thing completed is worth ten things on hold.” – Dianna Booher Most of our jobs entail delivering some sort of a widget to a customer. Ideally, we would be able to work on one task at a time. Finish it, then move on to the next task. Unfortunately, very few of us feel we [...]
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Kanban Board for Lean Software Development
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” – Ben Franklin Lean software development was actually my introduction to agile through the Poppendiecks’ book, but Ray came in and has refocused our teams on what it means to actually run a lean software shop. So, as I often do, I dove headfirst into studying. I read anything I [...]
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A Wire Frame for Running an Agile Software Project
One of the most contentious and discussed topics on our team was how to actually run an agile project. After a lot of good debate and maybe a few bad arguments, here is a wire frame of how we run agile software projects. Create a backlog for the project. Get with stakeholders and ask them what they [...]
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Glossary Of Agile Terms and Definitions
Acceptance Criteria – Measurable terms of what must be done for a user story to be acceptable to the stakeholders. Backlog – Sometimes called a Product Backlog, the Backlog is a collection of user stories and tasks the development team will work on at some point in the future. Initially, this list consists of all [...]
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