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Friday, 08 July 2011 00:00
 
Agile-Lean Governance, Compliance and Program Management - July 2011

Governance"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."--John Wooden

The topic for this month's edition of the Agile Journal is Agile-Lean Governance, Compliance, and Program Management.

With the increasing federal government's interest in agile, Richard Cheng in his article "Agile and Federal Governance--A Look at Contracts and EV" delves into whether or not federal governance controls are ready for agile implementations.

In the article "Agile Customer Validation Vision," Mario Moreira will help you understand the importance of the Agile Customer Validation Vision and how to establish a validation vision to benefit product success and each project therein.

Included in this edition is my review of Jurgen Appelos book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. This book is not so much about agile software development as it is about agile management, the managerial counterpart to agile development. This book is easy to understand, and it should be valuable to anyone involved in agile-lean product development.

Nirav Assar, in his article "Four Techniques to Wrap Your Head Around Complicated Code," offers some techniques he uses to work through complicated problems and wrap ones head around complicated code.

Your agile buddy,
Russell Pannone
Editor-In-Chief
Agile Journal

 
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Agile and Federal Governance--A Look at Contracts and EVM 
by Richard Cheng

Federal Agile Adoption
On December 9, 2010, the US chief information officer announced a twenty-five-point implementation plan for restructuring federal information technology [1]. One of the major reforms called out in the plan is agile software development [2].

Even before this announcement, several agencies have prominently promoted their agile capabilities. Highlights include:

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Agile Customer Validation Vision 
by Mario Moreira
Gaining periodic customer feedback of working software is an important aspect of agile development, because it ensures that you are constructing a valuable solution for the customer. Without customer validation, you are not really applying agile; you are just doing a form of iterative development without aligning your work with the customer’s need. While the engineering practices applied within an agile project focus on building the product right, the validation practices focus on building the right product.
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BOOK REVIEW: Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders 
by Russell Pannone

Jurgen Appelo’s Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders is not so much about agile software development as it is about agile management, the managerial counterpart to agile development. This book is easy to understand, and it should be valuable to anyone involved in agile-lean product development. Some of the reasons I found this book easy to understand are Jurgen’s witty, entertaining, clear, and concise writing style combined with his basing the content on solid and pragmatic real-world experience.

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by Nirav Assar

Software people love challenges and want to exercise their brains by tackling difficult problems. Our nature is to understand complicated problems, become familiar with various business domains, and generate a solution that helps the world become a better place.

During our journey, we may have to look at complicated code (or “spaghetti code”). If we don't understand the dilemma or code, we risk solving the wrong problem and wasting time and money. This article offers some techniques I have used in the past to muddle through complicated problems and wrap my head around complicated code.

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