April 24, 2006

Lean Project Management and Feature Driven Development

First Hour - Who is Managing Lunch and other parables of Lean Project Management There are lessons about good project management all around us. There are ways of incorporating Lean ideas in to project management and often we see these ideas in other domains and think of them as just common sense. We are always doing projects in our personal lives. Often we’re better at them than we are at work. Why? David Anderson explores the common everyday ideas that you can pull together to create a coherent Lean project management methodology. Second Hour - Feature Driven Development 101Feature Driven Development is one of the original agile methods. David Anderson will explain the history of Feature Driven Development and its predecessor The Coad Method. Show how it came to represented in the Agile Manifesto, explain the principles and elements of FDD and show some examples from real projects to explain how it works and how it differs from extreme programming and scrum.

Speaker: David Anderson