by Myles Bogner, Ph.D. and Steve Kanter We had a small Agile software development team in one location. Within this environment, we operated with the following tools: A Kanban board drawn on a whiteboard with post-it notes that were physically date-stamped as items moved through the queue Company provided git repository for source control Metrics [...]
Well, maybe not my life, but my project’s life. A bit reading and patience will allow me to explain. But first, a definition of the word: Kanban. kanban |ˈkänˌbän| – noun a Japanese manufacturing system in which the supply of components is regulated through the use of a card displaying a sequence of specifications and [...]
Software projects very rarely both come in on time and budget and satisfy their end users. Its much easier to satisfy one of the above conditions, either living according to your original plan or adapting to the changing needs of your users. Satisfying both requires a certain amount of prescience. Demarco and Lister list Schedule Flaws as one of their 5 Risks of Software Project Management. In this article, we’ll discuss several symptoms and causes of schedule flaws, present metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule, and describe Agile ways to address this risk.
Have any of you read Deadline, by Tom DeMarco? Believe it or not, it is a novel about software project management. I read it years ago, back in the ‘90s, and fell in love with it. The basic premise is that the world’s best project manager is kidnapped and forced to manage a project for [...]