Dealing With Failure in Agile
One of the most difficult lessons that many organizations learn is that of failure. Mostly it means that we put whatever failed on the trash-heap of bad ideas and “never [...]
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Category: Agile Project Management
When Is Project Management Okay?
I recently read a couple of articles over on TechBeacon about Project Management. The first article I read was a rebuttal of the second, so I had to spend some time catching up [...]
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Distributed Teams Revisited - Tips and Tri [...]
I’ve been working with distributed teams for a long time – about twenty years now. Some of those teams have been based in Europe, some in India, and some across the [...]
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Some Thoughts on SAFe
One of the main questions I get asked (probably because I have SPC as part of the “alphabet soup” that follows my name) is about SAFe, or the Scaled Agile Framework. [...]
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Kanban Considerations for Agile Teams
I’ve had quite a few clients over the years who have wanted to adopt Kanban as their agile process. For some of them, using it is absolutely the right choice. For many [...]
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Chartering, Lift-off, Setting the Stage, From [...]
One of my favorite, old-time rock groups is Emmerson Lake and Palmer. And their song From the Beginning seemed appropriate for this article. One of my new favorite voices in our [...]
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3 Key Agile-centric Metrics
My friend and colleague Shaun Bradshaw and I were coaching at a client recently. We started to have a conversation around velocity, not directly driven by the clients’ context [...]
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Simplifying Portfolio Management
I read a wonderful article the other day that surrounded some specific techniques for portfolio management. Here’s a link to the article: http://www.infoq.com/articles/visual- [...]
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Agile Release Planning
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company It was around 2004-2006 that I started to connect the dots between some traditional, but low-fidelity [...]
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Why the Scrum Product Owner IS a Project Manage [...]
In part-1 of this article we began to explore aspects of Project Management responsibilities within the scope of the Product Owner role. I started to share a list of [...]
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