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To Estimate or Not to Estimate—That Is the Question In the agile community there is a movement called “no estimates”—where people are challenging the value and validity of estimating the work required to develop software. Scott Sehlhorst looks at the different perspectives of those who challenge estimation. |
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Removing Waste in Software Projects When the government suddenly passes regulations that impact the development of a product, an organization's investments could suddenly turn to waste. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how to deal with the waste as well as some methods to better handle inventories. |
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Create a Vendor Contract While Keeping Agile Working with vendors can pose challenges to an agile team, especially when it comes to contracting practices. How do you deal with contract relationships when trying to follow a philosophy that values collaboration over negotiation? Kent McDonald gives some suggestions for creating agile contracts. |
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What Happens When Projects Are Completed Ahead of Schedule? Are projects ever completed ahead of schedule? It turns out the answer is yes, and interestingly, just as with projects that fall behind, issues can arise with projects completed ahead of schedule. Naomi Karten writes about some of these problems and what to do if you finish a project early. |
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Tips for Managing Conflict You can’t avoid conflict at work. Once differences surface, a catalyst for serious conflict is the tendency for the parties to treat their differences as a zero sum game: For one party to win, the other has to lose. It doesn't have to be that way. Naomi Karten gives some tips for managing conflict. |
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How to Identify Disengaged Employees—and Increase Productivity Productivity can be difficult to increase but is usually easy to decrease. Undermotivated or unhappy employees spread discontent and use idle time to sidetrack their teammates. Identifying disengaged employees and removing them as a distraction will make everyone on the team more productive. |
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What Is Business Value and How Do You Measure It? Agile approaches have changed the conversation about measuring project success, from comparing against cost, time, and scope projections to looking at how much value the project is going to deliver. The problem that remains, however, is determining what value really is and how to measure it. |
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Are Most Meetings a Waste of Time? Despite the many articles on holding fewer meetings, there doesn’t seem to be a difference in the number of meetings being held. As many as 85 percent of managers think their companies’ meetings are unproductive. How can you prevent your meetings from being a waste of everyone's time? Read on. |
