... Yes, I worked with that system for 10 years with one particular client, with the backlog extending from 50 to 200 items. Each year we'd go through the list...
... Yah. By that I mean that that the waterfall project arrives at a definitive state and decision point and can get buy-off from other senior managers. ...
You talkin'bout me? If so, I knew it was a joke, but it was "trash talk" so to speak. There are reasons why some people like waterfalls, and I saw it work very...
That is why the combination of the two approach - Major Program Events and Fine Grained Iterations in between is ideal for enterprise type project like ERP....
... Well, in many cases, if not most, that's simply not true: 1. Nearly all waterfall projects finish late and with fewer features than planned. 2. No one (in...
Ron, ... Ships to who? Enterprise production users. Let's take our Product Data Management (PDM) system - WinChill(tm) . You're gonna want me to use a partial...
... Ships to whomever ... certainly to some location that will allow these putative "senior managers" a more clear view than inspecting some documents. ... ...
The recent discussion about the waterfall method & management control has finally pushed me, a lurker, to post my $0.02. What management wants is transparency....
I know this group is primarily focused on project process, but does anyone have a recommendation on a general process diagnostic or reference book? Thanks, Joe...
I should apologize to all who blast anyone who cross posts, Consider it done. Let's talk about Project management offices, corporate strategic efforts being...
Mike, ... that Agile is based on extensibility –that is the ability to reconfigure its tools to work in multiple environments at multiple levels. and ... ...
Right up front I'll say that I don't have a lot of practical experience with this. That said, I think that this is one of those places where Lean and Agile...
Mishkin It is this kind of transparency that makes out community so vastly different from others. Michael F. Dwyer "Planning constantly peers into the future...
In case anyone is unsure what I am referring to it is this statement: Right up front I'll say that I don't have a lot of practical experience with this. ...
... I think Theory of Constraints (TOC) also blurs-in with Agile and Lean via queuing theory as well. ... Hmmn - I was thinking that rather than the above, the...
I've been wondering the same thing (agility in IT operations, not just development). I'm still wet behind the ears, so please take my statements/thoughts with...
I find with all PMO implementations that the real question is one of corporate culture and motivation to change. If your managers understand ideas like...
Very slight disagreement: Agile development looks like just iterative development to a command-and-control-style management culture. In this style, it is the...
This is so true. Currently from the top down we reward empire building. ... is the PMO ... whether any ... project well ... suggest it to ... management ... ...
"1. Nearly all waterfall projects finish late and with fewer features than planned." I don't know where your data comes from, but here's some data on large,...
... Yes. I was alive when the original waterfall paper was written. However, waterfall as used in practice seems to have forgotten the feedback loops. Ron...
I've been wondering the same thing (agility in IT operations, not just development). I'm still wet behind the ears, so please take my statements/thoughts with...
... Seems odd. What is the "feedback to previous stages" part of a real (water) waterfall? Tobias http://agilethinking.net "There's a box?" Ron Jeffries...
Evaporation and rain - a most indirect form of feedback. Come to think of it, it is kind of like the feedback found in most real world applications of ...
Steve, I begining to think that those of most object to the waterfall paradigm don't work in envornments where waterfall has its usefulness. As one whose does...
