Monday, October 16, 2006

CMMI FAQ

Hillel Glazer at Entinex has been on a mission recently to solidly marry agile ideas with the CMMI. He’s been working on a really useful CMMI FAQ. A tool that can help any agile practitioner adjust to the CMMI world. Go check it out! Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, CMMI, Hillel+Glazer

Monday, October 02, 2006

Lean Project Management

The week before I left Microsoft I was due to give a webcast on Lean Project Management with VSTS and MSF. This was an update to a rather hurried presentation that I gave as the “vendor” talk at Agile 2006. Anyway, the webcast didn’t happen for one reason or another. In the end, I partially presented the slides in a Channel 9 interview that should appear any day now. Here is the full presentation. This material shows how to do iteration planning and tracking, how to identify waste in the process, how to buffer for variation and how to gradually improve.

Download Lean Project Management slides [3MB PDF] Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, Lean, MSF, MSDN+Webcast

Errata Page 23

It’s been pointed out to me that the ACPF equation on page 23 should read

Average Cost Per Function (ACPF) = OEtime period / Q

and not the inverse as shown in the book.