Agile*Product*AI

So I blogged on this topic a few months back. You can find that blog entry here. It was a popular post. So much so that we made a webinar out of it with the Agile Journal. Jeff McKenna, Serena's Chief Agile Evangelist and the first Scrum Coach, and Paul Dupuy, an agile black belt and the Product Owner for Serena Agile On Demand joined me for the session. We had a great time and hopefully the attendees found it valuable. You can find the information on the webinar here and a recording of the webinar here. We had far more Q&A than could be addressed in time allotted. I guess the discussion going a little long didn't help much either! So I decided to cross post the Q&A here in my blog. Enjoy (or ignore)! What if the business process isn't defined how does Agile handle business  reengineering?  When the business process is not defined, an agile approach provides an incremental model to explore and define it! Using Scrum for instance, you would work with your Product Own...

There is an idiom in American English that I use quite often. I assumed that it was commonly used – at least here in the States. The full idiom is “as American as motherhood and apple pie”. It’s typically used when you are describing something that is quintessentially American and an idea that very few would disagree with. Its often abbreviated to “motherhood and apple pie” and use when describing something obvious. When I enumerate the benefits of agile methods, they are, well, mother hood and apple pie! Here they are: Ensure the right software gets built through customer collaboration Deliver value early and often with incremental development Optimize production throughput and communication with collaborative, cross-functional teams Rapidly adapt to changing business, market and customer requirements Deliver higher-quality software through test-driven development Provide predictable execution and real-time visibility Ensure the right software gets built through customer collaboration...