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Following The Platinum Edge Agile Roadmap to Value, the first and foremost step in any project is to create the product vision statement. The vision statement is like a lighthouse, shining a beacon that you can see from afar. It's here so you can be sure you are...

Agile projects contain a relatively short project planning period at the project start. During project planning, the project team meets to set the tone of the project at the strategic level, which guides them to project completion. Unlike traditional project planning,...

The product backlog is an ordered list of all project requirements. Started at the beginning of a project, this single list of requirements is arguably the most important artifact in any agile project. Requirements in agile projects generally follow the user story...

The Certified Scrum Master (CSM) exam certification process is currently going through some changes. Until now, everybody who attended a Certified ScrumMaster course and took the exam, passed. However, starting  on September 1, 2012, the Scrum Alliance  will update...

Traditional project management methodologies have always tried to control the amount of change within a project. Change management procedures, meticulously scripted legal contracts and rigorous budget policies, are designed to fend change off as long as possible and...

Traditional project management methodologies do a very good job at keeping the customer away. In fact, customer involvement in what was deemed completely successful projects amounted to merely two instances: once at the beginning and one at the end of a project. In...

Traditional project management methodologies, such as PMP or Prince 2, define stakeholders as someone impacted or affected by the project. Different project management methodologies have different definitions. In Scrum everything is different. Officially, scrum only...

Although there is no formal project manager position in agile projects, under a scrum model, project management responsibilities are fulfilled through the following roles. Product owner: The product owner has ownership of the why, the what and the when of a product....

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...