Scrum BurnUp Charts
A Scrum BurnUp Chart is a specific Big Visible Chart that is used to show progress for a release or iteration. The horizontal axis represents Time and the vertical axis represents Scope. For a release...
February 7, 2012
2012
Three Pillars of Project Management
PMP certification is only one piece in the puzzle of project management expertise. This articles discusses the three main pillars of successful project management: knowledge, experience and people skills. These three sisters play complementary roles...
February 2, 2012
Three Deadly Pitfalls of Agile Implementations
Many agile implementations start off with good intentions, but do not deliver on the promise of agile. This article discusses three recurring themes of failure related to agile implementations: inexperience, lack of planning and limited...
January 31, 2012
Accidental Scrum
This article presents the story of a project that was performed in a Scrum manner without even knowing that the method was Scrum. What initially looked like an impossible project was delivered in six months,...
January 30, 2012
Remote Programmer
This video describe reasons for working remotely as a programmer. It presents a couple of useful habits of the remote worker and then focus on working effectively in a distributed team. There is a huge...
January 26, 2012
How Does the Project Manager Fit In Scrum?
What is the project manager supposed to do when teams are transitioning to Scrum? This question has already been asked and answered many times, but the answers are often different and sometimes contradict each other....
January 23, 2012
Small Teams More Efficient Than Large Teams
Carl Erickson shares in this blog post a study done on 564 information systems projects that seems to indicate that smaller teams are more efficient than larger teams. Small teams were defined with less than...
January 13, 2012
Measurements for Agile Software Development Organizations
This video presents an agile framework for organizational measures based around the improvement goals of Better, Faster, Cheaper.
January 12, 2012
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