Agile methods are now popular enough that the Project Management Institute has officially recognized them in a number of ways including setting up an agile project management community for PMI members. This is a good sign, and I re-joined the PMI as a result. However, there is still a big gap between “doing” agile and [...]
If you were going to write a book using agile methodologies, what might that look like? You might be inclined to create a backlog of topics… maybe play a little planning poker to get some idea of how big your book is in story points. You’d start wr…
While Agile methods have enabled organizations to understand and to adopt more disciplined software development practices, Agile can be taken advantage of by software teams in ways that can lead to less desirable results and even project failure. This presentation tells the story of an agile project staffed with veteran agile practitioners that failed catastrophically, and the principals found in Lean Software Development that helped explain the failure, as well as ways to avoid the same failures in the future. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://www.tvagile.com/2009/08/21/5-things-i-learned-from-lean-that-could-have-saved-my-last-agile-project/
People often ask me “how does Agile tell you to do <this and that>” and having recently presented the fundamentals of Agile to a large mix of people, the textbook answer is “well, it depends”. Folks who have little to no experience with Agile seem to be much more accepting of the fact [...]
Okay guys… if you are going to be anywhere near Charlotte, North Carolina next week… you have to find your way to the first East Coast Agilepalooza! We have a lined up a great group of speakers for the event… Jeff Sutherland… David Hussman… …
Agile methods put a high premium on what it means to be done. But if done is so valuable to our projects… just what exactly does done mean? Is there one universally accepted definition of done… or are there varying definitions of done depending o…
There are two things every leader needs to know to be successful: first, a leader must clearly articulate what they expect, and second, they need to inspect what they expect on a daily basis. The big challenge though is how do you stay on top of changing priorities? And how do you avoid micro management and making your team crazy? This is why OpenAgile, in my opinion, will be very quickly embraced by management teams around the world. It has all the necessary tools to ensure success.
I attended a great session on Agile vs Traditional last night with the Toronto Agile group and while there weren’t many traditional folks there, the session helped validate much of what I believe is the most important aspects of ‘becoming agile’.
The panel included Mishkin Bertieg, Scott Ambler, Colin Doyle, Orhan Kalayci and Winifred Menezes and [...]
A short while back I invited Mishkin Berteig to come to Waterloo to talk about agility. I was looking for something that would have a broad appeal to developers, testers and so on but would also have depth. Mishkin drew a full house and gave a great presentation on delivering successful agile projects. He covered [...]