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		<title>Evolutionary Project Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t knew of Evo before, I just bumped into it reading some stuff about post-agile project management&#8230; It&#8217;s not so far from the agile I know (at least the agile I used so far) Evo Principles SUMMARY: 1. Real results, of value to real stakeholders, will be delivered early and frequently. 2. The next [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t knew of Evo before, I just bumped into it reading some stuff about post-agile project management&#8230; </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not so far from the agile I know (at least the agile I used so far) </p>
<blockquote><p>Evo Principles SUMMARY:<br />
1. Real results, of value to real stakeholders, will be delivered early and frequently. </p>
<p>2. The next Evo delivery step must be the one that delivers the most stakeholder value<br />
possible at that time. </p>
<p>3. Evo steps deliver the specified requirements, evolutionarily. </p>
<p>4. We cannot know all the right requirements in advance, but we can discover them more<br />
quickly by attempts to deliver real value to real stakeholders. </p>
<p>5. Evo is holistic systems engineering – all necessary aspects of the system must be<br />
complete and correct – and delivered to a real stakeholder environment – it is not only<br />
about programming – it is about customer satisfaction. </p>
<p>6. Evo projects will require an open architecture – because we are going to change<br />
project ideas as often as we need to, in order to really deliver value to our stakeholders. </p>
<p>7. The Evo project team will focus their energy, as a team, towards success in the current<br />
Evo step. They will succeed or fail in the current step, together. They will not waste<br />
energy on downstream steps until they have mastered current steps successfully </p>
<p>8. Evo is about learning from hard experience, as fast as we can – what really works, and<br />
what really delivers value. Evo is a discipline to make us confront our problems early –<br />
but which allows us to progress quickly when we really provably have got it right. </p>
<p>9. Evo leads to early, and on-time, product delivery &#8211; both because of selected early<br />
priority delivery, and because we learn to get things right early.</p>
<p>10. Evo should allow us to prove out new work processes, and get rid of bad ones early. </p></blockquote>
<p>Full doc, with description of every single point <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~nrm/EvoPrinc/EvoPrinciples.pdf">here</a></p>
<p>Worth having a look to the <a href="http://www.gilb.com/">website</a> of the creators of the document above. </p>
<p>The only thing (marketing probably) I don&#8217;t really like is the sentence &#8220;Evo makes project failure structurally impossible!&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s structurally impossible!<br />
Evo fails, Agile fails&#8230; Just slightly less than Waterfall!</p>
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		<title>Track your team mood!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>toni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Team mood is very important, it&#8217;s an indicator on how the project is going, a good mood is essential to exit from bad situations, a bad mood should be fixed as soon as possible. I never tracked the mood in a team (I think I&#8217;ll in the future) and I reckon a graph like this: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Team mood is very important, it&#8217;s an indicator on how the project is going, a good mood is essential to exit from bad situations, a bad mood should be fixed as soon as possible. </p>
<p>I never tracked the mood in a team (I think I&#8217;ll in the future) and I reckon a graph like this: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.the-arm.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-1.png"><img src="http://www.the-arm.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-1-300x137.png" alt="" title="Team Mood Chart" width="300" height="137" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-289" /></a></p>
<p>Grab it from <a href="http://allaboutagile.googlegroups.com/web/Agile+Project+Vital+Signs+Dashboard.xls?gda=KbXkh1kAAADo41Ulc7Royl80p6UJhQFrg42LGeNd8dc0zzDNy1q-h7CJyXzpUhPz40fLOOy_dq61ziBndP56qwtLnsraiVaBrq5TRf4YzmhvvxiQXIDvkIQIqBBuatoZ3GVm6VpieyE&#038;gsc=1naLVQsAAABwo0c13zfs8viLt9xl0_IG">the Agile Vital Signs Dashboard file</a>, from the good blog <a href="http://agile-software-development.com/">all about agile</a>. </p>
<p>The end of spring/iteration retrospective could be the ideal moment to record the team mood.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s behind a good mood? Let&#8217;s try to make it happen on the next iteration!<br />
What&#8217;s behind a bad mood? Let&#8217;s try to fix it creating some actions. </p>
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