Early delivery of working software (and, for more and more organizations, working products) is one of the biggest benefits of using agile approaches. Delivering working products early in a project can allow higher ROI. They let development teams prove whether...
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The Agile Manifesto: Individuals and Interactions
Manifesto for Agile Software Development* We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive...
Agile Project Management Events
Stay informed about upcoming Agile project management events. Learn and network with top professionals in the field.
Agile Project Management Artifacts
Discover the key artifacts used in Agile project management. Learn how they help streamline project workflows.
The Platinum Edge Agile Roadmap to Value
The Roadmap to Value is a high-level view of an agile project. The stages of the Roadmap to Value are described in the list following the diagram: In Stage 1, the product owner identifies the product vision. The product vision is a definition of what your product...
What is an Agile Development Team? Overview of Key Responsibilities
The development team, also often just called dev team, arguably holds the most vital role in any agile process. While it is the ultimate aim of every scrum master to make his own role redundant and most teams could dysfunctionally continue their work without a product...
What is an Agile Coach? Overview
Wondering what is an agile coach? In this post, we’ll define this role and explore what they do and how they support organizations.
What is a Product Owner? Overview of Key Responsibilities
Lately, we have been talking about the different roles on a scrum team. Another important scrum role is the product owner. The product owner is the most difficult to equate to a specific traditional project management role, and is therefore sometimes the most...
What is a Scrum Team?
Scrum projects have a number of teams, and that can be confusing. Let's clear this up. Scrum has three main roles: The scrum master, who helps protect the team from distractions and clear impediments The product owner, who makes decisions about product features and...
The Agile Litmus Test
To be agile you need to be able to ask, “Is this agile?” If you’re ever in doubt about whether a particular process, practice, tool or approach adheres to the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Agile Principles, refer to the following list of questions: Does what we’re doing...
Recap of Quarterly LAAPLN Meeting & Book Signing on June 6th, 2012 in Santa Monica
Recap of the LAAPLN Quarterly Meeting and book signing event in Santa Monica featuring Agile experts and industry insights.
Top 5 Reasons Companies Become Agile
Ninety-five percent of companies are adopting agile approaches for building products (according to the 10th Annual State of Agile Report). Industries outside of software now make up the majority. Companies want to become agile because agile values and principles:...
