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Agile vs. Metrics

Vectorized from: Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle: Agile Software Development with Scrum Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Over the years, its by human nature to quantify most of the aspect when it comes to Return on investment . Project dashboard are meant to provide bird view of the project's overall health from a top level perspective. Although it gives a broad level view of the time lines , resource utilization, budget and so on so forth. Can we quantify performance indicators like human aspect of deliverable like motivation levels of team members, quality of customer sustenance, business continuity etc. Since emotional intelligence has certain predominance over IQ definitely it matters. In concurrent times of agile development where practices like scrum, iterative development , extreme programming are kind of just in time techniques to deliver solutions to different kind of projects. can we be able to quantify human aspect of indicators in agile ...

Service delivery in agile times

Agile Project Management (Photo credit: VFS Digital Design ) Service delivery in agile times: As part of project management , quality service delivery is the focus of any managers goal to achieve client satisfaction by optimizing resource allocation. Specifically information technology projects are quite dynamic by nature because of their direct correlation with business itself, since changing business scenarios pose risk of project usage , its goals and objectives, which leads to expanded time horizon, resources and cost. So, we are using Agile methodologies to execute successful projects and deliver services in agile environment. Obviously, here we will talk about Iterative and incremental model. Now comes the question of how we device our processes, tools, techniques to achieve optimized ROI and definitely sustenance and repeatability of the business. In recent times IT project have several infrastructure tools enabled like online collaboration meeting via voice ...