What do you do when you’re a product manager (for web applications and tools) who has started a new job, assigned to an existing team who are just about to embark on the development of a range of new products and product features? We’ll whatev…
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Agile, Product Manager, Waterfall, Your Career
It’s called the daily standup for a reason. It happens daily and you standup. Why do you standup? You stand-up in order to keep the meeting short. Each team member should answer 3 quick questions:
what did I do yesterday?
what am I planning on doing today?
what’s in my way?
I’m amazed at all the grumbling I hear [...]
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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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I don’t want to be a Scrum guy. I don’t want to be an XP guy. I don’t want to be a Lean guy… or a Kanban guy… or a DSDM guy… or a RUP guy… or a PMI guy. For that matter… I don’t even want to be an Agile guy.As my experience has broadened o…
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Here are some new techniques on an classic agile game to help new agile teams understand differences between waterfall and agile.
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I often get asked (or read posts) wondering about how to get started with Scrum. There are quite a few factors involved with coming up with an approach to switch to Scrum or Agile in general. Organization size and level of internal politics is probably the largest barrier I’ve seen based on conversations I’ve had [...]
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