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Minimum Requirements Documentation: A Matter of Context

Johanna Rothman

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. How little could they do for requirements documentation? I start with the pattern of Card, Conversation, Confirmation when I think about requirements and how much documentation. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. You might not like these ideas.

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How to Change a Workshop In-Person Game to a Remote Simulation for Effective Results

Johanna Rothman

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. I don't care what it is, as long as everyone has equal and easy access to that board/document.)

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Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs

Johanna Rothman

You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. You might not have a product without documentation tutorials or marketing. You can see demos. That's not the problem.

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How Little Can You Do (& Still be Effective)

Johanna Rothman

In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I ask the question: How little can we do to satisfy our needs? See my series about the agile roadmaps to see how that might work in practice. I want to avoid inflicting help as a manager on agile teams. Let Agile Teams Manage Themselves.). I think that way for management, also.

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” ” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.” It's not a long document.

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