There are many out there who are vehement in their support of agile over conventional project methods, as if success hinged on adopting only one of these over the other. The truth is, project management is not operations, and you will find yourself in situations where one or the other will not work. One of […]
One of the benefits of agile, at least in theory, is the single product owner. In conventional projects we can have many people in the position of the product sponsor or product owner. These multiple voices can provide contradictions in which our product development team must wade through to determine the real requirements. Experience indicates […]
Business Imperative There was a discussion going on LinkedIn and Twitter about technical debt, and management decisions. Sometimes business imperative trumps technical debt, but you must acknowledge the technical debt, and compare the business positives against the technical debt negatives. Technical Debt We should probably start by giving a definition of technical debt. Technical debt […]