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2007.Jun.23 Sat
Standish Group 2006 (2004?) Top Ten Success Factors
Quotes from an infoq interview with Jim Johnson of the Standish Group:
Top Ten Success Factors
- User Involvement
- Executive Management Support
- Clear Business Objectives
- Optimizing Scope
- Agile Process
- Project Manager Expertise
- Financial Management
- Skilled Resources
- Formal Methodology
- Standard Tools and Infrastructure
and
InfoQ: Agile must bring in new issues: how do you say when "planned" scope is accomplished, for a project using adaptive planning?
JJ: That's a good question. With companies like Webex, Google, Amazon, eBay, it's a challenge - they're doing something called "pipelining" instead of releases. "Whatever is done in 2 weeks, we'll put that up." They're successful because users only get small, incremental changes. And their implementation is proven - remember, some projects only fail after the coding is finished, at the implementation step.
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JJ: People think Agile is 'loosey goosey'... If people really looked at it, they'd see it's just as stringent as waterfall or anything James Martin could put together. To say there has not been major improvements is the last dozen years is just plain foolishness. We have made great progress.