I've been working on a book about agile project management for enterprise projects. My publisher just gave me a title! "Project Management the Agile Way -- Making It Work in the Enterprise". Look for it in January, 2010.
Until then, the article below is a petty good introduction to some of the top-level ideas. You can down load "What is this Thing Called Agile" from my library at slideshare.com
There are some other materials there you may find interesting. Let me know!
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Being Agile with Kano Analysis
Kano analysis is a new product requirements tool that gives visualization to the relative merits, or value, of requirements. Agile is a project method that focus' on intimate customer involvement in the development of new user value.
The slideshow below gives some of the highpoints of the Kano tool in the context of the Agile method.
You will see that one quadrant of the Kano chart is the 'customer delight' quadrant. Here, often latent requirements emerge and become product 'ah-hah!'s. Ah-hah!s are the real discriminators. These are the ones that will fascinate users, heighten their interest in the project, and become the grist for early adopters.
It's around the ah-hah!s that you can build the project theme -- the real value proposition for the customer.
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The slideshow below gives some of the highpoints of the Kano tool in the context of the Agile method.
You will see that one quadrant of the Kano chart is the 'customer delight' quadrant. Here, often latent requirements emerge and become product 'ah-hah!'s. Ah-hah!s are the real discriminators. These are the ones that will fascinate users, heighten their interest in the project, and become the grist for early adopters.
It's around the ah-hah!s that you can build the project theme -- the real value proposition for the customer.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Top Five Ideas for Project Management
Someone asked me the other day what the top five ideas I would give to an accidental project manager -- someone who has the job but not the training. What is it you pass along without much jargon that will get them started. I put my ideas in a slideshare presentation you see below.
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