Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean)

For the past three months I have been working with Paul Heidema (our VP of Marketing) to use OpenAgile to run our business.  I thought it might be interesting for folks to see a screen capture of how we have arranged things in CardMeeting to do our planning and tracking. The yellow cards are labels for our Cycles, the white cards are Work Queue items, and the blue cards are Tasks related to the item.  The orange cards represent special information (eg. obstacles or ongoing work) and the green cards represent reflections and learning for each Cycle.

Wonderful article by Martin Fowler that discusses the relationship between individual productivity, cost, team size, time to market and value delivered.  Some very interesting conclusions.  This is critical reading if you are a manager!

Mike Cohn has written an excellent article that covers a number of different options that can be taken when someone in an organization desires to implement an agile method.  These Patterns of Agile Adoptions are described as three sets of contrasting options:

1. Start Small vs. Go All In
2. Technical Practices First vs. Iterations First
3. Stealth Mode vs. Public Display

I just read through this article about Requirements Management in an Agile World.  It’s a pretty brief article (just the one page), so there isn’t too much there.  Have a read, and then come back here and tell us all: what is wrong with this article?