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Manage It!: Which SD process have you chosen and how impact it your PM approach?
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Darya Akbari
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Hi Johanna,
Is there a Software Development (SD) process you prefer? Which one is it and what impact has it on your Project Management (PM) approach?
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SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD
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Ilja Preuss
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At http://www.coderanch.com/t/130949/Agile/Agile-working-remote Johanna explains that she leans toward Scrum as the management process.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
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Johanna Rothman
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And, before I knew about Agile, I liked (and still do) staged delivery as a life cycle (an incremental life cycle).
Johanna
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Author of <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jrpm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management</a><br /> <br />Coauthor (with Esther Derby) of <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rdbcd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management</a><br /> <br />Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633595/ref=jranch-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People</a><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hiring Technical People blog</a><br /><a href="http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Managing Product Development blog</a>
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Darya Akbari
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So what's the Software Development method you use? You say that any sort of iterative/incremental lifecycle will work. But which one do you present in your book? Does it has a name?
[ November 16, 2007: Message edited by: Darya Akbari ]
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Johanna Rothman
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Originally posted by Darya Akbari:
So what's the Software Development method you use? You say that any sort of iterative/incremental lifecycle will work. But which one do you present in your book? Does it has a name?
I think you're asking two questions here  .
For software development methodology (not project management), I lean towards the XP practices. They're low ritual and high return for the time.
For project management, I lean towards Scrum. I didn't name the generic i/i lifecycle in the book. I did picture something more like Scrum than anything else.
In the book, I discriminate between the management practices a PM can use and technical practices a team can use. Maybe I'm just too literal , but I really believe the PM has different work, so I don't believe that the PM approach is the software development methodology. To me, they are two different things.
Johanna
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Darya Akbari
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Originally posted by Johanna Rothman:
I don't believe that the PM approach is the software development methodology. To me, they are two different things.
Same to me .
Let me just summarize:
Software Development: XPProject Management: Scrum
Obviously you see above combination as today's best practice .
Regards,
Darya
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