Change the Method, Change the Orders
Changing from a waterfall method to an agile method places a number of stresses on team members. During these times of stress, it’s not uncommon for teams or managers to enforce standard policies in an attempt to improve results in the short term. But, doing so will prevent the team from seeing the benefits an agile approach can bring and may cause the agile adoption to fail.
References
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. The Little Prince (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971).
- The Agile Manifesto
- Weinberg, Gerald M. Quality Software Management, Vol. 1 (New York: Dorset House, 1991).
- Derby, Esther and Diana Larsen. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Raleigh, NC: Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006).
About the author
Steve Berczuk is an engineer and ScrumMaster at Humedica where he's helping to build next-generation SaaS-based clinical informatics applications. The author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration, he is a recognized expert in software configuration management and agile software development. Steve is passionate about helping teams work effectively to produce quality software. He has an M.S. in operations research from Stanford University and an S.B. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and is a certified, practicing ScrumMaster. Contact Steve at steve@berczuk.com or visit berczuk.com and follow his blog at blog.berczuk.com.
