Software the Agile Way....

- Lack of change management or understanding of it  -   Agile solution- Sprint review meeting ensures this - Stakeholder's understanding of the scope and scope creep   - Agile solution- Can be resolved by maintaining a well maintained Product backlog by the PO - Over-commitment  -  - Agile solution- This can be ensured using Team collaboration in Sprint planning in Scrum - Managing up instead of down or across the waves  -  - Agile solution- Collaboration resolves this - Allowing outside forces and management to affect your team   - Agile solution-Scrum Master protects the team - Not understanding your personnel resource strengths  -  - Agile solution- Retrospective meeting resolves this ( let the team resolve this) - not updating the schedule and taking action.-   - Agile solution- Shorter Sprint goal is set  -   Not communicating in the proper format at the proper level of the organization to affect a positive...

Before launching a project, organization need to include a first cut as per the below list: Product vision  Product roadmapping   Feature selection (feasibility, WSJF-Weighted Shortest Job First, etc)   Story mapping / initial product backlog   MoSCoW / slicing / MVP   High level architecture   Technology stack selection   Risk management (starting with identification)   Some UX/UI as this needs to work a bit ahead of "coding"   Test strategy   Tool selection (CI, testing, build, code analytics etc)   Scrum Team definition   Skill gap identification + training / coaching plan   Stakeholder Management (starting with identification)   1 pager Scrum Team charter + social contract   User feedback strategy   (outside) dependency management (starting with identification)   PBR that makes the product backlog ready for sprint 1   How to deal with (enterprise) governance   Strate...