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How Agile Skills Improve Job Security

In PM Network magazine, Jesse Fewell wrote a great article on Agile Downsizing? Why Agile Skills Improve a Project Manager’s Job Security. Here are a few highlights: “Agile wasn’t designed to improve the bottom line like that, but it’s a misconception that has some project managers worrying whether a move to ‘self-organizing’ teams would make …

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MSF Agile Workstreams and Activities

When I review an approach, I find it helpful to distill it to a simple frame so I can get a bird’s-eye view.  For MSF Agile, I found the most useful frame to be the workstreams and key activities.  According to MSF, workstreams are simply groups of activities that flow logically together and are usually …

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MSF Agile at a Glance

I like to be able to scan process methodologies so I create skeletal views that let me quickly see the key activities, artifacts, principles, and practices of a methodology.  MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process.   Here’s are notes on MSF Agile circa 2005, which might be somewhat dated, …

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Software Methodologies at a Glance

“I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.” ― Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes I’m a fan of simple maps to help drill in. After all, it’s hard to explore the concepts if you don’t know they exist, or you don’t know …

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Extreme Programming at a Glance

“Each of the practices still has the same weaknesses as before, but what if those weaknesses were now made up for by the strengths of other practices? We might be able to get away with doing things simply.” – Kent Beck Extreme Programming (XP) has been around a while, but not everybody knows “what it …

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