We continue to meet after numerous public holidays sunk our usual Monday time slot and we shifted around to Thursday a couple of times. Today we had some really interesting topics.
- What approaches have you seen work to change Exec behaviours that undermine Agile success; rigid approvals, slow review, annual budgets, etc?
- May Harvard Business Review, “Embracing Agile“
- The Standish Group, Agile is no.5 in priorities of project success.
- Burn out – how to avoid?
- Raising morale
- Executives aren’t aware of reality
- Software “death march”
- How to tell the story of the cumulative flow diagram?
- Lead times
- Bottlenecks
- Planning documents – valuable or a waste of time?
- Test case planning – test driven development
- Documents are for communicating
- Using the product backlog
- Old artefacts from waterfall
- Reference Agile manifesto
- Managing the message
- The “potential to create unnecessary panic”
- Product Owner is the stakeholder manager
And we ran out of time to discuss:
- What are some ways to motivate engineers to do testing?
- What are some good ways to manage bugs in a project?
- Should you fix all bugs before working on features and improvements?