Challenges in Time Accounting in Software Projects
Time Management has always been a much talked about subject of management. Jim Rohn said “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” Yet, software...
View ArticleHow ALM Tools Can Help Key Software Processes
In a recent exchange, I was asked what the typical ALM tools do to address three key challenges around process improvement and compliance in software/ IT organizations, and more specifically, what we...
View ArticleWhat is the Vision – Agile or Agility?
Induction into AgileMy introduction to the Agile world goes back about 3 years. Charged with the new buzz of Agile, a team at Digité attended an Agile workshop conducted by a local Agile/ Scrum...
View ArticleProduct Engineering depends on ALM Lifeline
(ALM for Developers Series)If there is one team that epitomizes the 'Structured Chaos, Unstructured Innovation' mantra, it is the Digité Engineering team! Our daily churn across different engineering...
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Digité Participates in Agile Coach Camp 2010
Digite recently sponsored a team at the Agile Coach Camp (Goa, India) organized by ASCI (Agile Software community of India) where a good number of agile coaches and practitioners from various leading...
View ArticleWhen is a project too small or too short for ALM?
Someone recently asked that question in a community forum. Their own answer was - 'Never'. There are 3 aspects of this question that I can think of and respond with while agreeing fully with their...
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Is Agile ALM on SaaS for you?
In the last 2 years, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a delivery model for corporate applications has found a significant amount of support. In the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash worldwide, there...
View ArticleAgility requires greater Discipline. Are you ready for it?
For long, we have heard complaints about Waterfall, CMMI, etc. The complaints vary from too much process to too much documentation to too much overhead, etc. The fact is that like everything else that...
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Join the Kanban Conversations!
It has been an exciting 3 weeks since we launched the GA release of Swift-Kanban. Clearly, Kanban for software development and IT teams is being seen as the elusive weapon that promises to take Agile...
View ArticleAgility Redefined
There is an enormous amount of discussion and literature (in the Software/ Application Development circles?) about different processes (or methodologies), their pros and cons, their challenges, etc....
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Participating in LSSC11: Lean on the Rise
Digite participated in the recently completed LSSC11 (Lean Software & Systems Conference 2011), an event focussed on Lean Software Development, in beautiful Long Beach, California.It was a great...
View ArticleScrum Bangalore - Scrum, Kanban and Pecha-Kucha!
I recently participated in a local Scrum event in Bangalore and shared my experience in trying to implement Scrum and later Scrumban within my current organization. I have shared the slides below.The...
View ArticleKanban and the Focus on Fundamentals
(Previously published in the DJ Anderson Associates sponsored eBook - Quotable Kanban)Our Kanban journey began early in 2010 when we decided that we would build a product in the Kanban space that would...
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Using Swift-Kanban for customer portfolio management
My business focuses on lean-agile coaching, consulting and training, not on software development services, and I successfully use Kanban to manage my customer portfolio.It is untrue that Kanban is only...
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Effort Tracking with Kanban
Software development using Kanban principles has not focused on Effort Tracking (though there hasn’t been a strong position against the same). At Digité, we were practitioners of Iterative Software...
View ArticleLean Software Development
Originally published on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh533841(v=vs.110).aspxDavid Anderson describes Lean Software Development as follows:IntroductionLean and AgileLean Beyond AgileDefining...
View ArticleKanban – Evolutionary or Revolutionary?!
One of the key benefits that David Anderson, the renowned Kanban thought-leader and father of the Kanban Method for software development (as well as Advisor to Digité) highlights about Kanban is that...
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Scrum --> Kanban = Scrumban or Kanban? Lessons at Lean Coffee
At Digité/ Swift-Kanban, we had a great visit to the LeanSSC (now Lean Systems Society) last week in Boston. Having been in the market for just about a year, it is heartening to be recognized and even...
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Maturing the Kanban board
Organizations new to Kanban that have no experience with Agile usually find it easier to design their boards than those with Agile background because Kanban recommends the board to reflect the actual...
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So how do YOU do Agile in a Distributed environment?
I was part of a very interesting discussion at a Silicon Valley high-tech giant a couple of weeks back that focused on doing Agile with distributed teams. We discussed several aspects of Scrum/ XP...
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Visualizing cycles in Kanban
At a training session in Kitchener Waterloo, Canada. I was asked how to visualize and handle cycles in a Kanban board. The images below show a way to do it as a physical board and on an electronic...
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Handling ticket issues with Kanban
David J Anderson's book on Kanban shows us that a way to handle ticket issues is by attaching a color tag to a ticket to make it visible. An issue is ticket-related event that becomes an impediment to...
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Why we hate process
Process improvement (PI) specialists have historically dealt with the challenge of implementing PI initiatives in any organization – especially the resistance to change from the people impacted by the...
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7 Smart New Year ALM Resolutions for CIOs and Senior IT Execs
Figure 1 Source: Forrester, Inc.While Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has become a topic of great discussion for middle-management, especially in Development organizations, it has largely...
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Agile and Innnovation
Recently, we participated in Agile India 2013, where our Sr. VP of Engineering, Sudipta Lahiri was invited to be part of a Panel Discussion. The topic was Agile and Innovation and the panel discussed...
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