My three books on agile made this list of “The Top 100 Agile Books” by Jurgen Appelo. He used an objective method of ranking books based on Amazon.com and GoodRead.com quality ratings and popularity. His blog explains the approach. Uncle Bob Martin and I were each fortunate enough to have two books in the top [...]
Laurie Williams, a professor at North Carolina State University, recently conducted a survey to find out which principles and practices are used by agile teams. If you read my monthly newsletter, you probably saw the announcement asking for people to participate. She had over 300 responses and released the results today. Among the findings were [...]
Stealing a page from the software development industry, the World Champion New York Yankees have decided to send of their players offshore. Although New York will remain team headquarters, some players will now play their parts of games in the popular offshoring centers of India, Ukraine, and Brazil. The move is expected to save the [...]
We’ve added two new tools for prioritizing a product backlog: Theme Screening and Theme Scoring. Each of these is a lightweight way of comparing product backlog items to one another. Theme Scoring You can use theme scoring to compare user stories or entire projects against one another. In this technique you identify a set of [...]
A nice side effect of having the Succeeding with Agile book done and in print is that some of my time has freed up for other projects. One such project has been the creation of some tools for agile and Scrum projects that we’re making available on the Mountain Goat Software website.
I’ve wanted to make [...]
A nice side effect of having the Succeeding with Agile book done and in print is that some of my time has freed up for other projects. One such project has been the creation of some tools for agile and Scrum projects that we’re making available on the Mountain Goat Software website. I’ve wanted to [...]
We’re proud to announce that Mountain Goat Software has become a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP).
Attendees at our courses have always been able to claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) for our courses, but becoming a Registered Education Provider through the PMI allows us to offer Category 3 PDUs. This makes PDU [...]
We are now able to ship Planning Poker cards via FedEx. We’ve had a lot of requests for this since taking our store live a year or two ago and the delay was the inability to get “live rates” from FedEx. A live rate is calculated on the weight, box and destination and FedEx can [...]
Agile Journal has published an article of mine called, “Determining How Agile You Are Comparatively.” It is about the Comparative Agility project. If you haven’t looked at this before, please do. It’s an effort to collect data on how agile various companies are so that they can compare themselves (anonymously).
The Agile Journal article includes a [...]
It seems like time for a new contest with the winner getting a free copy of Succeeding with Agile, my new book.
In Succeeding with Agile, I describe a waterfallacy as “a mistaken belief or idea about agile or Scrum created from working too long on waterfall projects.” And I give some examples, including these:
Scrum [...]