Agile Mashup

One of the biggest differences between the PMI crowd and the Agile crowd has to do with our expectations about uncertainty.The PMI crowd generally believes that a Project Manager is supposed to manage uncertainty out of the project. The Agile crowd t…

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The Agile PMI Community of Practice officially launches next week at the Agile 2009 conference… and there are LOTS of things going on!For the full scoop on all the week’s happenings… visit the PMI Agile Wiki to get all the details about receptions….

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The summer is quickly coming to an end, and with it will end our summer special of 50% off Certified ScrumMaster training or only $995.00 CAD.  Our special offer is still available for the next 25 people to register and pay, but that offer ends on September 21.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled [...]

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A few years back when I was still doing hands-on project management work… I used to teach internal classes on iterative and incremental product development. Officially… we were teaching a very light-weight instantiation of the Rational Unified Pro…

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One of the first things I do when I meet a new team is ask them to introduce themselves and tell me a little about what they do. We go around the room and people say things like “hi… I’m Bob and I am the Product Owner” and “hi… I’m Sue and I am th…

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Our summer special is proving to be very popular!  We started with 100 spots at our 50% discount price of CAD 995.00.  We’re down to 59 spots.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled in Canada is available at this fantastic price (Toronto, Waterloo, Edmonton, Ottawa).
Even without the discount, our [...]

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Post before last… I made the point that companies often have a hard time adopting agile because their management structures are not in alignment with their corporate objectives. We have project managers and resource managers and product managers. W…

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Our summer special is proving to be very popular!  We started with 100 spots at our 50% discount price of CAD995.00.  We’re down to 76 spots.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled in Canada is available at this fantastic price (Toronto, Waterloo, Edmonton, Ottawa).
Even without the discount, our [...]

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