My history while using the Scrum framework is that the framework is all about taking risks early and often in the development of the...

Quality in any methodology/framework I believe is the true measurement of a successful project. It's the project...

Using the waterfall methodology all of the project's scope gets unidentified at the beginning of the project by using all the...

Quality Assurance-Waterfall In traditional methodologies like waterfall, QA is primarily a function of the execution phase. If you ask...

You have to start with a member of the business/stakeholder, someone who can make decisions NOT just a member of that business unit. You...

I see little things that the traditional project management methodologies introduce into the agile/scrum environment. I think there are a...

Starting Development Now your team can start the “real work” of the project, and now you are very dependent on your team leaders, teams...

Here you GO Now all team members are up to speed and have a clear concept of the project and all the results of your planning sessions...

Your new development project has many plans associated with it, risk plan, testing plan, communication, schedule etc. Maintaining,...

Relationships between these two elements are extremely simple, “the shorter the timeline the less in development dollars, plain and...

In many of my previous IT roles, Agile could not be implemented because of lack of expertise, resources or the buy-in from management....

Elimination of “Just-in-Case” (JIT) Activities and Resources The delivery of the products should be “just-in-time”; Agile methodologies...

Three- Distribution of Work “The work must be distributed evenly among the employees and the process must be balanced” This speaks...

Two-Mapping the Value Stream The flow of the work and information must be identified to determine how it creates value. Measures to...

One-Identifying Value Deploying Agile/Lean in an organization means bringing in a cultural change. Certain guidelines need to be followed...

Standardization is important as it helps to eliminate waste out of the product development process. If the processes and the design...

Learning and measuring for improvements should be a part of all the processes in any organization. The performance goals that need to be...

A definition of Front Loaded Process will bring back I believe the most important thing that you can learn about Lean in IT projects,...

I am going to end this thread of posts with the expected targets as it relates to Six Sigma in the technology arena. Once the scope has...

The DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology, which I discussed in earlier postings is used when a product or a...