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simple constraints: 7 tips on getting yet another new team up and running on Agile

Going to try to lay down some quick observations about getting new teams ramped up on Agile. It's just like everything else in life, you keep getting better at doing what you've been doing, but you keep having to lead new horses to the same water.

Agile is hard to understand, and it's really hard to understand if you aren't intimately familiar with the challenges of modern software development...
Every project is different...
Initial story quality always sucks...
Try to get from mockup to building real applications/web pages ASAP..
Do not confuse visual pretty makers with interaction designers...
Small bite size pieces at all levels, from stories, to the size of your iteration, to the time to initial launch, to your release cycle. The smaller you make things the less you have to think about, the more you can focus on doing one thing perfectly right.
There are two kinds of reactions to Agile. "I get it, this is how it's done," and "WTF???" Don't bother trying to lecture...

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Tags: Agile, IT, Project Management category: Technology & Features

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What CEOs really want -- and how IT can provide it

Intimacy, simplicity and creativity. Not words you would associate with the pressing business desires of a CEO, but these are qualities that they long for, in a big way.

In fact, CEOs that are more adept at instilling these qualities into their organization’s operations are those that are seeing the best results in this crazy world in which we operate. This is the finding of a study released by IBM, summarizing the attitudes and opinions of more than 1,500 decision-makers from across the globe...

Customer intimacy
Simplicity
Creativity

Source: www.zdnet.com Posted by

support 719 days, 5 hours, 41 minutes ago

Tags: IT, Strategy, technology category: Technology & Features

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Four variants of agile development methods

Rick Freedman explores four agile method variants that bring the theories into real-world practice. He also discusses criteria for selecting an approach based on your IT project.

Extreme Programming (XP)
Dynamic System Development Model (DSDM)
Crystal Methods
Lean Development (LD)

Source: blogs.techrepublic.com.com Posted by

support 725 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes ago

Tags: Agile, IT, Management, Project Management category: Technology & Features

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What does the intranet look like in a social business? - J. Boye

Social media has evolved from distracting fun to hype to significant mainstream adoption over the last 18 months or so. Will the intranet remain unaffected by this? Or are there any emerging signs from intranets in social businesses that could provide some clues to what the future is likely to bring? Consumer organisations such as BMW, BT, Coca Cola, Red Bull, Virgin and WWF have invited their customers to participate in conversations and taken their usage of social media tools, such as blogs, Facebook,...

Social media has undeniably become a dominant phenomenon everywhere; yet most intranet experts continue to discount it as simply a collection of interesting features and emerging technologies with little relevance. Social media is indeed much more. Notably, some progressive social businesses are going out of their way to facilitate culture change through increased employee participation using mature, “enterprise-friendly” technologies.

Source: www.jboye.com Posted by

support 731 days, 15 hours, 46 minutes ago

Tags: collaboration, Content, IT, Management, Mobile, social media, technology category: Social intranet & Collaboration

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Enterprise 2.0: Accelerating Business Performance -- InformationWeek

Understanding how to orchestrate greater value and flexibility from large enterprise backbone applications in conjunction with newer, more agile Enterprise 2.0 processes and technologies to effectively support critical business functions is a major challenge for business leadership.

The ‘1.0’ enterprise software market that powers larger enterprises today has very deep origins and roots in historical core business processes, whose foundations significantly predate computer technologies.

The ‘Enterprise 2.0’ movement in business breaks out of the restrictive document, postal and telephone workflow paradigms that are now over a century old and were essentially emulated digitally to model ‘1.0’ communications and application technology platforms in the personal computing era.

Enterprise shortcomings today can be characterized by the following realities....

Source: www.informationweek.com Posted by

bee 735 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes ago

Tags: enterprise 2.0, IT category: Social intranet & Collaboration

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Three Common Mistakes in Pursuit of Enterprise 2.0 & the Next Generation Workplace Part 2

The pursuit of the Enterprise 2.0 utopia promised, described and promoted across the web has attracted the committed, the curious and the cautious. As we move further up the adoption curve the amount of success as well as failures increase. This is the second in a short, three part series about the common mistakes in Enterprise 2.0 strategies and how to avoid them.

The three common mistakes of E20 are:

Technology treated as an ends rather than a means.
IT as leading the business rather than supporting the business.
Information architecture that is walled and gated when there is no good reason for it to be that way.

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support 738 days, 17 hours, 8 minutes ago

Tags: enterprise 2.0, Intranet 2.0, IT category: Technology & Features

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Tips for Web Product Management

I am currently providing web product management services for two clients. One client is a start-up launching a new web-based product. The other is a 100 year old newspaper. While at face value these two clients couldn’t appear to be more different, they are actually quite similar.

What follows is a list of principles and practices that I have found to be effective.

Establish a regular (2-3 week) release cycle
Define and communicate prioritization criteria.
Don’t forget the HotFix queue
Write good tickets
Use your source code control system
Automate deployments
Build a talented and committed team

Source: www.contenthere.net Posted by

support 741 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes ago

Tags: Deployment, IT, Management, Team category: Technology & Features

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What Enterprise 2.0 means for the CIO and IT department - Ross Dawson

One of the key issues is the implications of these approaches for the organization and its key functional areas. Not surprisingly, there are a particular set of pressing issues for the IT department. These are covered in the report - we have excerpted Chapter 19 on the implications for IT below.

WHAT ENTERPRISE 2.0 MEANS FOR IT

Enterprise 2.0 has significant implications for the IT function of organizations. It is of course generally the responsibility of the IT function to facilitate the adoption of technologies that create value for the enterprise. However Enterprise 2.0 technologies both have significant cultural aspects to their use and uptake, and can have a significant impact on the underlying business processes and even value creation inside the organization.

Source: rossdawsonblog.com Posted by

bee 746 days, 16 hours, 3 minutes ago