I just attended a great presentation about Agile project management by Mike Cottmeyer at Agile Edmonton’s monthly meeting. What stood out for me were two comparisons Mike made between Agile project management and traditional approaches (e.g. waterfall project, PMI/PMP).
Dealing with Uncertainty
Mike characterized traditional approaches as trying to manage out uncertainty in the effort to achieve [...]
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The goal of quality assurance (QA) activities is to ensure that a particular work product is of sufficient quality. Work product most typically refers to the software making up the system, but can also be applied to related documentation (requirements or design) or even processes. Two common methods for doing QA are reviews and testing, [...]
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I am a big fan of the agile philosophy of software development as summarized by the Agile Manifesto. The agile approach fits well with my pragmatic mindset, and I consider myself an agile practitioner, despite currently working in a bureaucratic environment providing application development and maintenance services to a large, process-heavy government client.
But then [...]
