The Ten Golden Rules for Successful Agile Projects
Summary
I’m blogging the conference Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value • Agile approaches to projects are maturing and becoming mainstream, yet some are more successful than others • This presentation describes the ten golden rules that will increase the chances of success, and make the difference between an “OK” project and an “excellent” project. Keith Richards – process/method consultant, specialising in Agile projects. No survey – just first hand experience… • Define the project objective in less than 10 words • Build a team with those who say “can” • Go slow early to go fast later • Look backwards to go forwards • To be understood, seek first to understand • Work hard at controlling what you can’t control • One more day? Expect to spend half a day writing the <10 words. Change to get a closer fit to the business need (depth change) is good – change in breadth might be a problem… (signals possible issue with project objective) Facilitation and influencing skills are core competencies for Agile projects – especially for the project manager.