Agile Release Planning: End-to-End Project Envisioning, part-3

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I’m going to do something strange in this article. I’m going to ask you to read another article first. The topic is Agile Chartering, but I think that may not have been the best of titles. Truly the article is about a group of agile teams who found themselves in a bit of a mess […]

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Agile Release Planning: End-to-End Project Envisioning, part-2

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Continuing on with end-to-end planning techniques within agile contexts – Crystal Blitz Planning Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal method gets very little attention in the agile community. In many ways it’s one of the forgotten agile methodologies. So it hasn’t been well received as a method, but I like to “mine” Crystal for techniques and ideas to […]

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Agile Release Planning: End-to-End Project Envisioning, part-1

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It was around 2004-2006 that I started to connect the dots between some traditional, but low-fidelity, planning techniques I’d been using and agile, or XP at the time, release planning techniques. I think it was the Kent Beck & Martin Fowler book that explored agile planning beyond the individual iteration. Fast forward to today, and […]

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Building Trust in Distributed Agile Programs

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I was listening to a webcast / podcast by Johanna Rothman just the other day. She was sharing on building trust in agile teams, with distributed teams being a focal point. Trust in this case was both within the team and surrounding the team. She mentioned 8 principles that help to guide the building of trust.

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