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Should your project use a Value-Driven approach, Plan-Driven approach or both?

This article originated from numerous discussions on when to use a Value-Driven approach, Plan-Driven approach or both. The practices in both approaches are not totally mutually exclusive, particularly in complex projects: there will always be a need for an appropriate level of governance, a plan and some things will need to happen in order. Each

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Lean, Value Driven Agile, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, Management, PRINCE2®, Scrum, Waterfall

Leading Agile Teams in Practice

There are many ways to lead multiple Agile Teams, with some approaches being more effective than others. The Agile police may caution me after reading this (which I’ve preemptively created solidarity hashtags for), so to be clear: this article describes one tailored approach to leading multiple teams to deliver a technically complex product using Agile

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile Agile, Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, Management, Scrum

An Agile war story: why teams need to value upfront thinking

Passing a course and being coached is great. However, the real learnings come from the tailoring of good practices from methodologies to real projects. Being a real practitioner cannot be gained from a qualification alone, so we practice and learn lessons. Below is a summary from a recent CMS migration project for a large magazine

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Case Study, Estimation, Planning, Team Agile, CMS, Scrum, Team

How Agile are you?

So you think you are agile? You have successfully embedded the agile principles, values and practices from your chosen process framework, pull system and software development methodology applicable to your organisation. However, how does your organisation measure the success of this? Thankfully, we have an answer. Agility can be measured by: Ratio of development budget to

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Development Agile, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Scrum

When to use Extreme Programming (XP)

Whether your preferred Agile approach is the Scrum process framework, the Kanban pull-system or a tailored combination of both, neither will tell your developers how to develop once they understand the requirements and business priorities. This is when Extreme Programming (XP) is used, which essentially takes software development best practices to extreme levels. There is

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Development, Extreme Programming (XP), Planning, Team Agile, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, Scrum

Waterfall is dead, long live Agile?

Maybe not as dramatic as the title suggests, but the latest evidence suggests that the Agile software development values, principles, practices and now tools are here to stay, with Scrum and Kanban alongside Extreme Programming (XP) being the most popular Agile methods used today. What is Waterfall software development? The waterfall model is a sequential

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Waterfall Agile, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, MSP®, PRINCE2®, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™), Scrum, Waterfall