{"id":3010,"date":"2009-07-28T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/28\/agileexec005\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T16:46:48","slug":"agileexec005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/28\/agileexec005\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Valuable Software, guest Jim Highsmith &#8211; Agile Executive #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutter.com\/meet-our-experts\/jhbio.html\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/agileexecutive.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/200907281126.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"200907281126.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Cross posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagileexecutive.com\">The Agile Executive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>To listen to this podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/agileexec005.mp3\">download the podcast directly<\/a>, subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/theagileexecutive.com\/feed\/\">the blog\/podcast feed in iTunes (or whatever)<\/a>, or click play below to hear it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"embed\">\n<p>In this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutter.com\/meet-our-experts\/gati.html\">Israel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleoverprocess.com\/\">I<\/a> talk with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cutter.com\/author\/jim.highsmith\">Jim Highsmith<\/a>. We center the discusion around the new edition of Jim&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Agile-Project-Management-Innovative-Development\/dp\/0321658396\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1248798251&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Agile Project Management<\/i><\/a>, but this pulls in all sorts of general discussion about Agile:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did Jim get into Agile? Going from traditional software development to Agile.<\/li>\n<li>How does Rapid Development compare to Agile? Tools in RAD vs. tools in Agile.<\/li>\n<li>Pivoting on a mention of Jim being in China, I ask him about cultural differences of applying Agile, for instance, based on geo-cultural differences.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s new in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Agile-Project-Management-Innovative-Development\/dp\/0321658396\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1248798251&amp;sr=8-1\">the new edition<\/a> that leads into larger applications of Agile? Release planning, &#8220;scaling&#8221; self-organizing teams, governance issues, and measuring.<\/li>\n<li>How does Agile work in a systems, or hardware plus software situation.<\/li>\n<li>Israel asks Jim for some advice on synching up software developed in an Agile fashion with hardware folks. There&#8217;s primarily more coordination and dependency management between teams and features.<\/li>\n<li>Release planning &#8211; most Agile teams focus on iteration planning, without peaking up to concerns at the release level, e.g., budgeting, timing, and marketing concerns.<\/li>\n<li>How can &#8220;the business&#8221; get involved with the process to make sure focus is kept on the release?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s this &#8220;scaling&#8221; business? Scaling a team up in size, or scaling a team out in a distributed process.<\/li>\n<li>Israel and Jim then dig into distributed scaling, adding in off-premise teams and collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>Tracking and measuring things from a (business) strategic orientation. This hits on keeping track of value (will this software make us money?), quality and other &#8220;metrics&#8221; over time. Who is that determines this &#8220;value&#8221; ongoing? Getting people to figure out &#8220;value points.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Israel then asks Jim for a retrospective on where we&#8217;ve been and are after the Agile Manifesto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, see<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cutter.com\/2009\/07\/27\/whats-new-in-the-2nd-edition-of-agile-project-management\/\"> Jim&#8217;s sum-up of the new content in the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion with Jim Highsmith on using Agile to deliver software people want, i.e., &#8220;value.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[417],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-redmonk-radio-podcast","tag-jim-highsmith"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}