Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • Scrum’s product vision vs. project mission

    Scrum’s product vision vs. project mission

    As noted previously, Scrum uses the term product to mean artifact. This is fine, as long as the user of Scrum is a software vendor, developing a product for a market. It is confusing, however, if the user is a consulting firm, performing a custom project for a client. If you are a consulting firm,…

  • How project vs. product confuses agile methods terminology

    How project vs. product confuses agile methods terminology

    In a previous blog post I noted how the terms project and product are being confused in open source. However, it is agile methods, specifically Scrum, where it gets really bad. To recap: A project is a human undertaking to create an artifact. A project, by definition, has a start date and an end date.…

  • How Project vs. Product Confuses Open Source Terminology

    How Project vs. Product Confuses Open Source Terminology

    The terms project and product are used with continued confusion. Both open source and agile methods are particularly bad offenders, leading people astray. Adapted straight from the textbooks: Not always, but typically, a project is used to create a custom artifact, while a product is (by definition) made for a market, that is, many different…