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
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
Late Projects Are All the Same
The famous Tom de Marco shares in the article “All Late Projects Are the Same” some experience of his 50th year working in information technology. He thought initially all late projects were the same in...
January 9, 2012
2011
Sustainable Pace
This article discusses sustainable pace as an essential element to long term well being in project management. In Scrum projects, the team needs to be comfortable speaking up and pushing back; the Scrum Master needs...
December 14, 2011
Kanban Weakspots
This video is an interview with Pawel Brodzinski about his experiences in using Kanban in his development teams. In particular it covers the weakspots of Kanban as this is the title of Pawel’s presentation at...
December 7, 2011
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