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 [...]
In the May 11, 2010 edition of Government Computer News, contributor Michael Daconta advised government IT managers to be wary of agile methods in his article, “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Agile Programming.” I’d like to present a different point of view from the one taken by Mr. Daconta – proposing that IT [...]
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 [...]