Moscow and Documentation

While researching for a presentation, the concept of "Moscow" was discovered. Its brilliance and its relevancy is as relevant today as it was when created in 1994 by Dai Clegg, of Oracle. Moscow represents a means of defining features for a product, or in our case,  documentation priorities.  Those who are familiar with JIRA will be familiar with the High, Medium, and Low ratings. There are others as well. But somehow, once you learn about MoSCoW, it's easy…

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Scrum Resources

Over the last few months as we have watched one of our clients move to Agile, we've been asked by various project and product managers to help them figure out how documentation would function within their changing environment - the options were, at all times, relatively simple. In, out, alongside, after.... The complicated part was determining not what the options were, but which one would best serve the company and the end-users. During these discussions, we have used…

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Being agile in an Agile Environment

Another of our clients has decided to move to an Agile development environment. We've worked in this style before but this was one of the first times (if not the first time) that we were there before the environment. It was an interesting experience, watching a not-really-startup company redesign how it develops and releases its product. They brought in an Agile expert to guide them and I enjoyed being in on the training. From the start, it was…

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