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Webinar Nov 19: Translating Points to Dollars

Agile teams speak in points and iterations, but business managers think in terms of dates and dollars. This conceptual and language barrier makes strategic business planning and reporting a significant challenge for Agile teams. Join us for a webinar on Nov. 19 at 9:30 PST.

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Boeing Webinar – Integrating Quality in Portfolio Management – oct 2010

Brent Barton and Chris Sterling presented this at a webinar for Boeing. Boeing Webinar – Integrating Quality in Portfolio Management – oct 2010 View more presentations from Brent Barton.

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New Release: AgileEVM has Portfolio Sharing

We are excited to present this significant new release of AgileEVM (http://www.agileevm.com)! You can now share your portfolios with as many people as you like at no extra charge.  Our unique value-based pricing on active releases helps you promote transparency because you can share information with as many people as desired. You have the ability [...]

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Manage Up with AgileEVM

As teams start to use Agile methods for delivering software, it is common for the business to ask for a summary of progress. This is not always easy to do for Agile teams. Teams may have an Agile project management tool, hand-drawn burn up charts, task boards on the wall with other information radiators or [...]

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SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night

Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]

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An Exercise to Identify and Prioritize Software Debt

I am passionate about managing software debt. You may have noticed from the articles and blog entries I have written and presentation slides on the subject. Over the past couple years teams that I work with use an exercise to identify software debt in their software. Here are the basic steps: Draw a model of [...]

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Official Launch of AgileEVM at Agile 2010

It has been a while since we have posted to this blog but please stay tuned for more frequent updates. The reason for the blog interruption was that we were finishing off a book, “Managing Software Debt”, and releasing a product, AgileEVM. We thought our first blog entry to start our emergence back out of [...]

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Focus on Team Communication

In the agile community there are some common practices that are either seen as valuable or to be avoided. Two of those practices are estimation using Planning Poker and Sprint Planning task breakdown. The focus for many teams in these practices is on the estimates themselves and how “accurate” they are. It has been my [...]

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Slides from Managing Software Debt Talk at PNSQC 2009

Tomorrow at 1:30pm I will be discussing my paper published by the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2009 in Portland, OR on “Managing Software Debt: Continued Delivery of High Value as Systems Age”. I have uploaded the slides for this presentation and I hope that some of the new content will help those looking for [...]

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Maintain One List of Work

During an interview at the Better Software conference this week, I mentioned that I thought maintaining a single list of work prioritized by the business was important for our industry to improve. The following text is an excerpt, in first draft form, from chapter 2, “Architecture Integrity”, of my upcoming book “Architecture in an Agile [...]

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