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Getting a group of people to move together toward a common objective is never easy. As a project manager dealing with teams of people, each of whom represents different constituents, comes from a different point of view, and is trying to pursue a different set of interests, your task is formidable indeed. To be successful, you need to employ facilitation skills to move the group process forward as well as negotiation skills to make sure that your own interests and your project's interests are met along the way.
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Agile Software Development: A Customer-Centric Way of Doing Business
by Stacey Berlow
Agile software development promises to build -- in a faster way -- quality software that closely meets the customer's needs. Hence, the methodology is a customer-centric way of doing business rather than simply a process to be followed. As such, agile software development requires a strong partnership with the customer, one that affects every decision in a project's lifecycle.
Consider Constraining Your Project with Timeboxed Sizing
by Jim Highsmith
Agile development has always included the practice of timeboxing -- setting a fixed time limit to overall development efforts and letting other characteristics, such as scope, vary. However, timeboxing can also be used in another interesting way: timeboxing capabilities and stories rather than projects or iterations.
An Agile Chat
Webinar featuring Michael Mah, Kim Wheeler, and Mike Lunt
After each of Michael Mah's recent Cutter Consortium webinars, in which he described the remarkable productivity and quality numbers that have been achieved by several Agile development groups, we received a large number of follow-up questions -- far more than we could answer in the time we had.
