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Category Archives: implement by feature
Is Your Product Development Half-Actions?
Via Jack Vinson, I found this gem: Stop doing half-actions. All of you who are separating your developers from your testers? You are doing half-actions. Separating the writers from the developers and testers? Half actions there, too. Even when you … Continue reading
When You’re in Chaos, Try Baby Steps
About a month ago, I spoke with a project manager who’d inherited a project in chaos. No one was making progress. He was stumped–he’d never worked on a project where the developers couldn’t do anything, the testers couldn’t do anything, … Continue reading
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Tagged inch pebble, project management, project team, timebox
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Are Your Defects Like Potholes?
It’s winter here in Massachusetts, and we’ve had lots of snow, ice, rain, snow, ice, snow, ice, rain. All that freezing and melting plays havoc with the roads. We have lots of potholes, and the local and state governments are … Continue reading
Posted in defect, implement by feature, incremental development
Tagged agile, inch pebble, timebox
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Cleaning Up the Office, Round 3: A Slightly Agile Approach
I reported on my progress cleaning up my office previously . I hadn’t let it get that bad since that round of organizing, but I did ask for help from Daughter #2 in May, to buy some bins and … Continue reading
Letting Go of BDUF
I’ve taught several workshops where people wanted to learn how to start adopting some agile approaches. They knew about timeboxing, but didn’t quite see how to make it work. The part they were missing was having working valuable product … Continue reading
Posted in BDUF, implement by feature
Tagged agile architecture, timebox, transition to agile
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An Attempt at Pictures for Implement by Feature vs. Architecture
Joshua asked me to clarify what I meant by implementing by architecture. Here’s my picture-story. When a team implements by architecture, they tend to be functionally-based teams implementing across the architecture. See . When a team implements by feature, … Continue reading
Measuring Project Completion Progress
I taught my project dashboard workshop today. One of the things most people want to measure is progress towards project completion. But you can’t measure project completion progress unless you have completed features: developed, integrated, and tested features. A … Continue reading
Posted in dashboard, implement by feature, measurement
Tagged project management, project success
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Implementation by Feature and Embedded Systems Issues
I’ve been working with some companies who do hardware/software systems. Most often, they have some embedded code too, just to make life interesting. To be honest, I don’t know how to do implementation by feature for a whole brand … Continue reading
“Complete” and “Freeze” Aren’t
I had a discussion recently with a manager who was concerned about his developers meeting their milestones. “We have “Code Complete” as a milestone. The developers say they meet it, but that just means they wrote code until the … Continue reading
Assembly Line vs. Implement by Feature
I taught a project management workshop earlier this week. I include a small project as part of the workshop, so participants can practice planning, organizing, and a little steering of a project in a safe setting. One of the … Continue reading
