Summary

Information is crucial to creativity, innovation and reducing risk on projects. Agile methodologies provide many techniques to facilitate a continuous flow and exchange of information, but fall short in two important areas: dealing with information sharing across groups external to the project team and structuring action-based information exchange within the project team.

The Open Information practice provides activities for instituting agile information sharing practices on a project: collocate team members, negotiate a customer representative on site, practice pairing, encourage the use of information radiators, and conduct a stand-up meeting daily. It also recommends that agile managers map the project's value stream to reduce the ...

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