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Agile and the Knowledge and Skills : Level 3 The Knowledge and Skills at the Level 2 are :  – Agile contracting methods – Agile project accounting principles – Applying new Agile practices – Compliance (organization) – Control limits for Agile projects – Failure modes and alternatives – Globalization, culture, and team diversity – Innovation […]

Agile and the Knowledge and Skills : Level 2 The Knowledge and Skills at the Level 2 are : – Agile frameworks and terminology – Building high-performance teams – Colocation (geographic proximity) / distributed teams – Continuous improvement processes – Elements of a project charter for an Agile project – Facilitation methods – Participatory decision […]

Agile and the Knowledge and Skills : Level 1 The Knowledge and Skills at the Level 1 are : – Active listening – Agile Manifesto values and principles – Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values – Brainstorming techniques – Building empowered teams – Coaching and mentoring within teams – Communications management – Feedback techniques […]

Agile and the value stream analysis  Value stream analysis is described in : – Value stream mapping – Waste and WIDETOM – Business value delivered chart Value stream mapping The value stream map is a Lean tool that practitioners use to analyse the value stream. Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing analysis technique adopted […]

Agile and the value based prioritization Value based prioritization is based on : – Compliance – Customer valued prioritization – ROI – IRR – PV – NPV – IRR and NPV – Minimum marketable feature (MMF) – Relative prioritization/ranking – Value Compliance Compliance is the act of being in alignment with guidelines, regulations and/or legislation. […]

Agile and the soft skills negotiation Key soft skills negotiation qualities for the effective implementation and practice of agile are: emotional intelligence, collaboration, adaptive leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, servant leadership. [Coaching Agile Teams. Lyssa Adkins.] – 6 keys Emotional intelligence Collaboration Adaptive leadership Negotiation Conflict resolution Servant leadership 6 keys of soft skills negotiation – […]

Agile and risk management  Agile risk management : – Risks – 5 core risks areas – Risk audit – Risk contingency – Risk mitigation – Risk monitoring – Risk-adjusted backlog – Risk-based burnup chart – Risk burn down graphs – Risk–based spike Risks The agile methodology generally deals with qualitative risks. NOT quantitative. [The Art […]

Agile and the product quality Product quality is defined by : – Acceptance criteria – Continuous integration – Definition of done – Escaped defects – Project charter – Test, test-driven development/test first development – Frequent Verification and validation Acceptance criteria The acceptance criteria doesn’t be too vague (remember the T of INVEST for defining good […]

Agile planning, monotoring and adapting – Acceptance criteria – Burn-down chart – Burn-up chart – Cumulative flow diagrams – Definition of Done – Iteration – Kanban boards – Lean manufacturing, lean-agile software development – Process tailoring – Reflection – Reflexive improvement workshops – Release planning – Rolling wave plan or rolling look ahead plan – […]

Agile metrics – Cycle Time – Earned Value Management (EVM) – Progress – Velocity Cycle time – Value and progress Because value is delivered incrementally and iteratively through iterations, value and progress is typically measured at the end of each iteration. [The Art of Agile Development. James Shore.] – Project burndown bar chart If a […]

Agile communications  Agile communications are described in the Agile Manifesto. The Agile Manifesto developed by the Agile Alliance covers 4 values and 12 principles. The four values are : 1) individuals and interactions over processes and tools, 2) working software over comprehensive documentation, 3) customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and 4) responding to change over […]

Agile analysis and design Agile modeling is describe in the Crystal development process The Crystal development process is cyclical/iterative, its primary components are chartering, delivery cycles, and project wrap-up.   Agile chartering Chartering involves creating a project charter, which can last from a few days to a few weeks. Chartering consists of four activities: 1) […]

Agile estimation – Affinity estimating – Ideal time – Ideal days – Idle Time – Elapsed Time – Project buffer – Project burndown chart – Relative sizing/story points – Local safety – Parking lot chart – Planning poker – Product backlog – Reference point user story – Story points – User story – Revenue – […]