Managing change while also focusing on our primary responsibility: delivering the product, How we determine the project schedule and release plan, Identifying a team’s “velocity,” the team’s measure of productivity, in our efforts to more reliably predict when our product will be ready for production, The Five Levels of Agile planning and how they work together to ensure the team remains on schedule throughout the project, Using tools such as burn-down charts and task boards as strategic and tactical measures to closely monitor the team’s progress and make corrections as necessary.

How to conquer the battle over ‘Scope Creep’ once and for all, Consistently delivering what the customer truly needs and wants, not just what might have been initially planned for, Understanding complex environments and how complexity requires managing within the ‘Cone of Uncertainty’, Allowing the customer to always be in charge of the project scope, including making feature trade-off decisions when required.

How to ensure your product seeks to maximize ROI after delivery, Communicating to your customer the metric of work delivered against budget expended (earned value delivery), Methods for partnering with your customer to ensure that the value of what is being developed exceeds the investment it requires to complete.

Employing product demonstrations to ensure that what the team is building matches what the customer is expecting, Applying Agile testing techniques in the effort to create high-quality, refactored code, How to write effective acceptance criteria for identified requirements, Code reviews, paired programming and test-driven development.