Deciding What Kind of Projects are Most Suited for Agile
In this blog post, Mike Cohn explains that agile is most appropriate on any urgent project with significant complexity and novelty – and that includes software development and weddings.
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Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum
When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of “manager” seems to be missing entirely. “Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!” wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in...
Bridging Agile and Traditional Development Methods: A Project Management Perspective
The article “Bridging Agile and Traditional Development Methods: A Project Management Perspective” by Paul E. McMahon discuss agile project management adoption. Companies are reporting success in meeting rapidly changing customer needs through agile development methods.
The next step in the evolution of Agile project management
This post discusses is the next step in the evolution of Agile project management. The focus of project management used to be based on managing Tasks that people perform to deliver a piece of software. Agile project management shifted focus to managing the delivery of Features.
Book Review: Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book...
Agile Project Leadership Network
The Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) is a 501(c)6 non profit organization that is focused on making people great project leaders by focusing on the following: * Value * Customer * Context * Teams * Individuals * Uncertainty These ideas are described further in the Declaration of Interdependence, which was...
Is Agile Project Management a Fad?
Why is it called “agile” project management? Could it be called “agile project” management. This is the endless discussion, that has no resolution. Or at least no resolution that has any value. Glen Alleman try to to put agility back into conventional project management.
Scrum-tastic Tuesday – Break it down
This blog post is about how to improve software project estimations by breaking tasks into sizes no larger than one productive day.
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