Agile Enterprise Requirements Information Model – Subset for Agile Project Teams

In a recent post, A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise, we introduced the requirements information model that underlies the requirements-related elements of the Big Picture series. While presenting the model in UML form may seem a bit of a geek fest, it’s the best way to describe the model in relatively [...]

Still More on Agile Product Owner vs. Agile Product Manager- A New Whitepaper

The Agile Product Owner/Product Manager category on this blog continues to get a lot of interest from readers. In the past, I’ve highlighted my opinions on the differing nature of the Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager roles at enterprise scale. This has stirred some interest and a little controversy and a number of [...]

What’s Lean and Scalable about the Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise?

In the last post, we introduced a Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise. This model, based on the Big Picture, is being developed in collaboration with Juha-Markus Aalto, Director of Operational Development for Nokia S60 Software.
This model serves as the requirements-related semantic underpinnings for the Big Picture of Enterprise Agility and I [...]

A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise

For those of you who have been following the Big Picture series, you may have noted that one element of the picture is the “requirements information model” that flows down the right side. This element of the model describes agile terms for expressing system behaviors at various levels of abstraction. (See below).
In summary form, the [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (14b): More on Agile Portfolio Management and the Legacy Mindset

Note: This is part of a continuing series (see the Big Picture Category on this blog) wherein we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing posts, we have been working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the like) to [...]