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...

Scope the Project So the business/stakeholder has defined the scope of the project, the scope of the project is the set of objectives for...

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

Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, and Testing, as you work through your schedules and costs the risks you discover will...

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

Indicator Number Two-Team Supervision Teams come in all shapes and sizes as do the individuals who work on them, one type of supervision...

Indicator Number One-Your Teams Speed As a Scrum-Master you must know what skills are going to make your application development project...

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

Agile/Lean Does Not Mean Downsizing! Agile/Lean does not mean reducing or cutting down on the workforce and making the rest of them work...

Building a Lean Team The Agile/Lean plan must be communicated to the workforce (face to face) and an agile implementation (involving five...

Senior Management Senior management plays a critical role in the implementation of Agile/Lean. They need to discuss and agree on their...

Automation: Automation to the production system should automatically adjust to external and internal conditions. This can be one of the...

Use Design for Six Sigma: The most important thing for an organization is business/stakeholder/customer satisfaction. I believe with...

Strong Relationships The delivery and information system of the organization should be incorporated with that of the...

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

Four- Standardizing the Process The key processes must be identified and work should be reduced in terms of variation, errors, and...

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...