How Agile Eliminates Waste (5 of 5 )

By 3coast on June 23, 2010

Daily Scrums A lot of time can be wasted in meetings that add little value to the overallresults of the project. Daily Scrums eliminate long elaborate meetings in favor of shorter productive ones. The objective is to provide laser focus to indentify issues quickly and productively. The Daily Scrum is a simple ...

How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 4 of 5)

By 3coast on May 13, 2010

Next, in our series on how Agile eliminates waste in the custom application development process, we focus on Backlogs and how they are used to make projects more efficient and ultimately more successful; meaning more likely to be on-time, on-budget, and exceeding client expectations. Backlogs are logs that contain lists of ...

How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 3 of 5)

By 3coast on April 14, 2010

Here’s number 3 of the 5 top wasters that Agile addresses. In the previous segment, we discussed iteration cycles and how that they can be used to eliminate waste in the software development process. Standish reports that 64% of software functionality is never or rarely used. By eliminating wasted functionality we ...

How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 2 of 5)

By 3coast on April 5, 2010

We have been talking about how Agile eliminates waste and adds value to the project process. Remember the 7W’s (wasters) of lean manufacturing practices: defects, over-production, wait, transportation, movement, inappropriate processing, and excessive stored inventory. In the previous segment, “How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 1 of 5)”, we learned how collocated ...

How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 1 of 5)

By 3coast on March 8, 2010

Over the next coming weeks I will be discussing five ways that the Agile methodology can be applied to the software development process to eliminate waste. We use Agile here at 3coast as part of our custom application development methodology. Waste is defined as anything that does not add value to the final ...

Here is a Method that is Helping Project Managers to Stop Wasting Time

By 3coast on January 6, 2010

Too often, projects start without clearly knowing the work required. Even high-level requirements are not enough to gauge the depth and complexities of most projects. Low-level requirements bring more clarity, but experience has shown that it is often not enough. Also, the longer the project, the more likely requirements will change ...

The Secret to Better Managing Project Expectations

By 3coast on December 1, 2009

From project initiation to delivery, expectations should be monitored and managed to ensure success. What are expectations, and who owns them? Expectations are a two-way street between the client and project team, brought together through clear and constant communication. Project expectations are the client’s vision of the results of the service ...

Project Management 101 – Back to Basics

By 3coast on November 10, 2009

The Standish group reported in 2009 that only 32% of IT projects were considered successful, leaving 24% to be cancelled before completion and 44% considered challenged. For many troubled projects, the source of the problems can be directly linked to a failure in implementing basic project management processes. Let’s get ...

Scrum Kind of Software Development

By 3coast on September 25, 2009

Scrum has been around for nearly 20 years but has recently gained ground as a front-runner in the agile methodology practice group. Due to its approach to project requirements and fast iterative development cycles, Scrum will gain even more popularity as businesses are adopting lean processes, streamlining controls and cutting ...

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