Agile Journal: Agile process improvement published
Earlier I described how you improve the performance of IT organizations in an agile way. The Agile Journal published a compact version of agile process improvement.
Earlier I described how you improve the performance of IT organizations in an agile way. The Agile Journal published a compact version of agile process improvement.
Is het agile gedachtengoed toepasbaar voor de overheid? Agile Overheid, een nieuw kennisplatform ziet zeker mogelijkheden. Op 21 februari organiseert dit netwerk, samen met het Agile Consortium Benelux in Rotterdam een open space met als thema “Betere ICT voor de overheid”.
When I worked at Ericsson I used Scrum to manage Process Improvement projects, where it turned out to be a real enabler for Continuous Improvement.
In october 2010, version 1.3 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) has been released by the Software Engineering Institute. I’ve published several articles on the benefits of CMMI V1.3. This is (for now) the last article, which sums it all up.
At the end of the year and the start of the New Year, lot’s of people have their top 3, top 5 or even top 1000 of things. I got something better, my new years wish for you: a healthy and happy 2011! And it even comes with some advice on how to reach it.
Business needs for process improvement projects are changing. Organizations expect faster results from their process improvement investments; they want their improvement to follow changing business needs and be more engrained in the organization.
More and more organizations are adopting Agile ways of working. The descriptions of Agile methodologies give much guidance on how to manage on a team level. But there is limited information on changes needed at higher level in the organizations.
One major change in CMMI V1.3 is the addition of agile. Let’s take a look at this, to see how the deploying the CMMI version 1.3 delivers value for Agile organizations and how we can combine agile and CMMI in process improvement.
Earlier I’ve shared my definition of a proces. Methods (like Scrum, Prince2, XP, etc) help professionals to discuss the way to do things, to become more effective.