Variety! Last weekend, my little brother flew into town to attend a Las Vegas conference, and this rare occasion gave us the perfect excuse to explore a variety of mouth-watering restaurants. One thing we heartily agreed on was the enjoyment of rotating our food styles, for example, from the local I Love Sushi rolls to Settebello pizza to the Bellagio breakfast buffet to Kabuki sushi rolls.
In a nutshell, variety is the spice of life! Similarly, before IBM acquired TRIRIGA in 2011, despite our Waterfall-style methodology, “I enjoyed a broader cross-project and cross-product perspective of the release-wide documentation changes” where I wasn’t “pigeon-holed into a project-specific Agile silo”. In other words, I experienced a more-stimulating variety of project and product challenges.
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Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. So if this “spicy” attitude works well with my dining choices, why can’t I apply it to my Agile team choices? Even if software developers and quality assurance testers don’t have a preference, why shouldn’t I break out of my own Agile silo and rotate my product-specific Agile teams as an information developer?
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