Up until very recently Agile was seen as a great approach to software development……..for small projects. Even now, especially in the enterprise space (SAP, Siebel other EPR’s), agile is still seen by some as small-fry, a fun approach for building web sites. I was recently speaking with an old colleague from Deloitte, who is now [...]
Archive for March, 2010
10 Mar
Managing scope of the sprint or iteration on an agile project
A common fear about agile is that it makes the job of managing scope difficult for your project. This can be true, however, a golden rule of agile software development is that the scope of each iteration or sprint must be completely locked-down once it begins. This means no new requirements, no swapping of requirements [...]
10 Mar
What is a sprint or iteration in Agile or Scrum Software Development Projects?
Quite often we get asked by those new to agile development what exactly an iteration or sprint is? The first thing is that a sprint and an iteration are essentially the same thing, a “sprint” is the term used by scrum, which is the most popular flavour of agile project management. You’ll find that most [...]
