The following is an original article written by Kurt Sloan, printed here with permission. Kurt's a terrific BA that I am fortunate enough to work with. A template for the described processes below may be found here . Swim lane diagrams are good tools to use to map a process flow and identify potential...

When beginning a new project of any appreciable size and scope, I always start with a project charter to define the project vision, the business case for the product, basic scope and critical success factors. I also use the project charter to clearly define, to the stakeholders of the project, the agile...

A reader brought up the point that going "too" light and agile makes it very difficult to get other developers involved in the project or to hand the project off to a whole other development team. Furthermore, how are requirements efficiently tracked at all if we just have a few simple checklists to...

Large corporations, like the one I work for, tend to desire defining heavy project methodologies. Although a heavy methodology (when followed) leads to consistency, it's tedious to follow and dictates many steps which are often not applicable to the project they're being applied to. Furthermore, these...