So...How’s That Agile Initiative Doing?

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So...How’s That Agile Initiative Doing?

Sanjiv Augustine

August 21, 2006






In my last gantthead article, Getting Started with Agile Delivery, I provided some guidelines to help you get up and running quickly with an agile adoption initiative. In this article, I’ll cover some ways for you to monitor the health of your agile initiative through regular process inspection and adaptation.
 
Background
Inspection and adaptation are built intrinsically into agile methodologies: Scrum, eXtreme Programming, DSDM, Feature Driven Development, etc., are all based on the iterative Shewart/Deming Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) quality control cycle.
 
Since agile project delivery is iterative and incremental, every process iteration and every product increment provides opportunities to plan and deliver, and then inspect feedback from delivery.



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