agile-usability: Agile Usability

The companion website for the book Agile Management for Software Engineering - applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results - by David J. Anderson published by Prentice Hall PTR

To help managers with the assessment, we've created a simple 130-point scoring process. They can just walk through the various skill areas, rating their team on a 0-5 scale, based on the teams current level of competency. When done, they'll not only have an understanding of the team's overall effectiveness, but a clear idea of where to improve.

What can you learn about your agile project from this Gannt chart? The one above looks out two years. It shows task dependencies and concurrencies. If you’re iteratively developing software, do you really expect to know what you’ll be doing two years from now, to know if you truly have a dependency? [...]

Project Managers and Product Managers have similarities but are fundamentally two different skillsets. At the highest level, a project manager manages a project which has a fixed beginning and end while a product manager is tasked with managing a product which has a product lifecycle.

Project Management blog with articles about a range of topics. It focuses largely on IT projects and product development.

f you want to be a good product manager, learn the difference between product management and project management.

Jeff Lash on how to product managers can approach Agile methods