Stefano Rizzo is the Product Manager at Polarion Software. He has some 13 years of IT consulting and mentoring experience in several different business areas including Finance, Telecom, Software, and Government. As a mentor he has helped dozens of big companies introduce new development processes and methods. As a teacher he has trained thousands of people in UML, Requirements Management, and Agile development. As a methods evangelist he has helped hundreds of companies to share his vision about collaborative software development. His actual focus now is researching and developing methods and best practices for Agile and Live software development processes. Stefano holds a degree in Computer Science and a University research background in Software Engineering.
This is Part I of a Three-Part article. Look for Part II on March 17.
In the last few years, some of the most widely adopted best practices from
software engineering, especially the adoption and refinement of Agile
methods, have significantly reduced software development risk and increased
project success rates.
However, most of these best practices are founded upon an assumption that the
enterprise is able to create and maintain a well-insulated environment around
software developers. It has been proven that to outperform with Agile
methods, R&D people must “live together” in a stimulating
environment with few or no distractions relating to progress reporting,
discussions with management, document fulfillment, and so on.
As an example, consider the approach to gathering XP requirements
(“user stories”). The customer (or user) should be an integr... (more)
Stefano Rizzo is the Product Manager at Polarion Software. He has some 13 years of IT consulting and mentoring experience in several different business areas including Finance, Telecom, Software, and Government. As a mentor he has helped dozens of big companies introduce new development processes and methods. As a teacher he has trained thousands of people in UML, Requirements Management, and Agile development. As a methods evangelist he has helped hundreds of companies to share his vision about collaborative software development. His actual focus now is researching and developing methods and best practices for Agile and Live software development processes. Stefano holds a degree in Computer Science and a University research background in Software Engineering.
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