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Benefits of Comparing Agile with Waterfall

Benefits of Comparing Agile with Waterfall

Previous articles have covered a proposed waterfall product development phase/gate process.  This article will compare and contrast waterfall with Agile product development, especially with respect to the front-end of the process.

Let’s start with a proposed waterfall product development phase/gate process.  (The process below implies a hardware product, however, it can be considered any waterfall process for now.)

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile, agile product development, agile product validation, customer value, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, portfolio analysis, project approval committee, project governance, Project Management, requirements management, scrum, scrum master

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Project Governance and Resource Management

Project Governance and Resource Management

All projects or programs have a formal or informal resource management process, with the goal of completing projects on time, within budget and with good project quality.

In order to meet this goal, the resource management objectives are:

  • the quantity of estimated resources is accurate
  • the resource role requirements are clear and precise
  • the resources meet or exceed the expectations (requirements)
  • the resources are added in a timely manner
  • cost of the resources is minimized to the extent possible

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, agile product validation, customer value, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, portfolio analysis, project approval committee, project governance, Project Management, requirements management, resource management, scrum, scrum master

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Lessons from Scrum for Opportunity Champions

Lessons from Scrum for Opportunity Champions

In a previous article we compared and contrasted the role & responsibility for a scrum master vs. project manager/core team leader (CTL/PM).

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the scrum product owner role and compare it with the product development team’s “opportunity champion”.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, agile product validation, customer value, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, portfolio analysis, project approval committee, project governance, Project Management, requirements management, scrum, scrum master

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Lessons from Scrum for Product Development Teams

Lessons from Scrum for Product Development Teams

In a previous article, we explored agile product development with a focus on early product validation.

There are additional key enablers from agile/scrum that can be borrowed and applied to any product development process, however.

In this article, we’ll compare and contrast the role & responsibility for scrum masters vs. project managers/core team leaders.

Let’s start with (all) the basic scrum roles:

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, agile product validation, customer value, Human Resource Management, lean product development, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, portfolio analysis, project approval committee, project governance, Project Management, requirements management, scrum, scrum master

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Agile Requirements Discovery and Validation

Agile Requirements Discovery and Validation

Many companies pursue a product development strategy that provides a product (or service) which meets customer needs sooner (rather than later), and then makes adjustments after the product has been fielded.

Pursuing this approach means accepting the associated risks.  What if a critical to quality or critical to reliability characteristic fails to meet customer needs?  A product could fail miserably by eliminating important product development work scope and accelerating time-to-market.  By the time an adjustment or “pivot” can be made it may be too late, or too costly to correct.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, agile product validation, customer value, Human Resource Management, lean product development, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, portfolio analysis, project approval committee, project governance, Project Management, requirements management

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