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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Organizational culture.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.)

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

That's why many people were interested in the ratio of developers to testers back then. This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. That's when they thought the project would be done, and most of the development staff could leave to start the next project.

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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. Demo inside the organization. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Product development has nothing to do with birth.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.)

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. What do you do?