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    #71
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    We had a "living" design documented on Confluence with issues and tasks linked in JIRA.
    +1

    Wiki is my preference as well and how we documented everything on my project wiht the added benefit of linking everything back to JIRA.

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      #72
      Originally posted by VillageContractor View Post
      Agile doesn't mean no documentation. People use agile as an excuse to not do documentation
      Correct. But that's how it seems to be applied in many "agile" projects.

      A light version of PRINCE2 works; you pick and choose the documents and steps you deem necessary for your project and just use them, depending on what you're delivering, but Agile is much more a case of do it properly or don't bother.
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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        #73
        Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
        Correct. But that's how it seems to be applied in many "agile" projects.

        A light version of PRINCE2 works; you pick and choose the documents and steps you deem necessary for your project and just use them, depending on what you're delivering, but Agile is much more a case of do it properly or don't bother.
        I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

        Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.

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          #74
          Originally posted by ChrisFromGreece View Post
          I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

          Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.
          Not using it at all here, but it's not an agile project that I'm on.
          The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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            #75
            Originally posted by ChrisFromGreece View Post
            I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

            Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.
            Not many places do

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              #76
              Originally posted by VillageContractor View Post
              Not many places do
              That's where an Agile Coach could help...

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                #77
                Originally posted by ChrisFromGreece View Post
                That's where an Agile Coach could help...
                It depends if there's appetite for it. The idea of hiring twice as many programmers will go down about as well as a hedgehog in a condom factory.
                The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                  #78
                  Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                  It depends if there's appetite for it. The idea of hiring twice as many programmers will go down about as well as a hedgehog in a condom factory.
                  Definitely depends on appetite... why would you need twice the programmers?

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                    #79
                    Originally posted by ChrisFromGreece View Post
                    That's where an Agile Coach could help...
                    I've met many who can talk the talk, very few who can actually walk the walk and deliver (and believe me I attend a fair few agile meetings)..

                    Also you don't need pair programming - as with many things "Agile" pair programming is not a requirement of agile. Just a tool that has uses at times...
                    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                      #80
                      Originally posted by eek View Post
                      I've met many who can talk the talk, very few who can actually walk the walk and deliver (and believe me I attend a fair few agile meetings)..

                      Also you don't need pair programming - as with many things "Agile" pair programming is not a requirement of agile. Just a tool that has uses at times...
                      That indeed is very true... even in my company we have employed over time "Agile Coaches" at £1300/day who didn't really do anything apart from talk how in theory the Agile Transformation would work. And to be fair they make the rest look bad and give Agile a bad name...

                      So yeah, I agree with you!

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