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Measuring and Managing Agile Maturity: Planning and Tracking Disciplines

This post is part of a series on Measuring and Managing Agile Maturity. Click here to start at the beginning. Planning Discipline The cadence of regular software release milestones provides the means to conduct an objective assessment of project status at regular intervals. As planning has now turned to short term intervals (in iterations) and Continue

Measuring and Managing Agile Maturity: Collaborating and Defining Disciplines

This post is part of a series on Measuring and Managing Agile Maturity. Click here to start at the beginning. Collaborating Discipline We’ll start with the Collaborating Discipline, because without a cohesive team that works well together, there is a reasonably high business risk that an organization will struggle to achieve any true measure of Continue

Measuring and Managing Agile Maturity

Today nearly every business is pursuing some level of improvements to overall Agility. Agility, as defined by Webster, is the ability to change the body’s position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, ref lexes, strength, endurance and stamina. In business, agility is defined by the Continue

The Gear Stream Cloud Factory Model Continued (Again)

I’ve been discussing the Gear Stream cloud factory model that establishes a pattern for software development characterized by high velocity, high reliability, high dependability, and high predictability-from start to finish. Here are the final three key components of the model: Acceptance: In the Gear Stream model, acceptance is effectively guaranteed by the time the software Continue

The GearStream Cloud Factory Model Continued

My last post introduced the GearStream cloud factory model that establishes a pattern for software development characterized by high velocity, high reliability, high dependability, and high predictability-from start to finish. Here are three more key components of the model: Cloud factory: The heart of the GearStream model is the cloud factory itself, which relies on Continue