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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 on team accomplishments, we thought that bonuses needed to be dished out on a team-wide basis.  We’ve considered project based bonuses for the entire project team and we’ve also considered iteration based bonuses for the project team.  In the project based model, we’ve been considering providing bonuses if our project teams complete their work ahead of schedule, under budget, and with 100% client acceptance.  The structure of the bonus would be something like 1% of the total contract value to be divided amongst the project team as they see fit.  Read the rest of this post

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Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter 1 comment

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.

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Post written by Chris SpagnuolocloseAbout the Author Name: Chris Spagnuolo
Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter Add comment

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 granularity of the stories be?  This brought to mind the idea of planning horizons and prioritization.  Read the rest of this post

Post written by Chris SpagnuolocloseAbout the Author Name: Chris Spagnuolo
Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter 1 comment

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 drift throughout the life of a project?  Some say “Write a vision statement and stick it on the wall?”.  I’m not a big fan of “statements”.  I think people get lost in them, and statements, over time, can be open to interpretation as well.  Read the rest of this post