stakeholders

Get Out There and Learn About Stakeholders' Problems

One of the more often repeated phrases from the lean startup and customer development lexicon is the admonition to "get out of the building" in order to meet and learn about customers. What project teams should take away from this idea is the need to interact with stakeholders to address problems.

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Kent J. McDonald
Playing the Critical Friend through Enterprise Analysis

Enterprise analysis focuses on achieving a solid understanding of the problem or opportunity and the business and customer value that the organization hopes to achieve. An important part of enterprise analysis is acting as a critical friend when stakeholders can't see beyond the silver packaging.

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Adrian Reed
What Is DevOps All About?

DevOps is an umbrella concept that serves as a response to the "wall of confusion" that sometimes occurs when the communication between development and operations becomes unreliable. How does this confusion come about? What are some of the elements that fall under the DevOps umbrella?

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Bob Aiello
Are Your Requirements Flying Blind?

Of all of the requirements a stakeholder says "must" be done, how do you know which ones "should" be done? Connecting the project vision and goals to the requirements can help your team decide.

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Scott Sehlhorst