Agile development and collaboration

In this chapter, we will touch on probably the most important part of the development cycle, the one that contributes the most to project success and delivery time – enabling your people to be productive and eager to work on a project as a team by helping each other.

With over two decades of experience working in different countries, companies, sectors, and functions, I can say that developers love their work, and they hate doing nothing or, even worse, stupid, pointless things.

You can be assured that as long as your developers have a clear picture of what to build and small enough incremental goals to achieve, they will build your project, as this is what brings them satisfaction.

The agile development part of this chapter concentrates on making your people work on what matters most, reducing useless work as much as possible. The collaboration part ensures that they do not work isolated but are aligned, and they help and coach each...