13 KEEP IT SMALL

It is very tempting at the beginning of a project to include loads of things in scope and plan a ‘big bang’ deployment. However, this is rarely the best way to deliver change, especially in the IT arena. Where possible, packaging the change up into smaller, interim deliverables supported by full testing is a safer and more robust approach to implementation.

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CREATING A SOCIAL WEATHER COMMUNITY FROM SCRATCH

Paul Craig took the role of Scrum Master on a project for the UK Meteorological Office. The Met Office provides weather data to NASA, the US Army and other places that cannot get the information from their own national met ...

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