A great question that I’ve heard several times now is “How do you award bonuses or implement employee incentive programs in an agile organization?”. As we’ve been rolling out our enterprise agile strategy at DTS, we’ve been wrestling with this question too. Since agile practices don’t encourage heroism or the individual developer but instead focus [...]
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Bonuses in an agile organization?
March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Corporate Culture (or not), Project Management
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Agile Project Management for GIS now online
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management
This month, Dave Bouwman and I authored an article on agile project management for GIS development projects in GIS Development Magazine. The article was published in the hard copy magazine and is now available online also. If you’re interested in reading the article, check it out here. © Copyright 2007, ChrisSpagnuolo.com GeoScrum! by Chris Spagnuolo [...]
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The shape of things to come
February 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management
Yesterday, I wrote about backlogs and what your team includes in them. Well, it seems that backlogs are on my mind a lot this week. Today, I was working on a backlog for a new project and was considering what should be in it. How far ahead should I be looking and what should the [...]
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Drift happens
February 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Project Management
Over the course of long projects (and some short ones too), the shared understanding of the project, release, or even iteration goals can drift. Different team members remember or interpret project aspects differently over time. This drift can result in producing a final product that doesn’t satisfy your client’s expectations. So how do we counter [...]
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