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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...

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...

The scrum framework consists of five events. Each event provides the scrum team transparency into either the product or their processes to enable regular inspection and immediate adaptation. We have also found several common agile practices that complement and...

Project progress should be visible and measurable in order to be useful. In addition to the three scrum artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog and the increment), agile project teams often use three additional artifacts (product vision statement, product roadmap...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Written by: Kevin W. Reilly, PMP, CSM, CSPO Hello Everyone! I attended the Quarterly Meeting of the LAAPLN (The Los Angeles Agile Project Leadership Network – www.laapln.org) this past Wednesday evening in Santa Monica, CA. It was a special event since Mark Layton,...

Agile Project Management for Dummies, by Mark C. Layton, Certified Scrum Trainer, is the first book to provide a simple, step-by-step guide to agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques. Agile project management is one of the fastest-growing management...