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11th March, 2014

The Agile Project Manager—Please Sir, May I [...]

A Sad Story A seasoned Director of Software Development was championing agile adoption at their company. It was a moderately scaled initiative, including perhaps 100 developers [...]

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6th March, 2014

The Agile Project Manager—Listen to your [...]

This is a continuation post. I want to finish the idea of trusting yourself–your instincts and your “gut feel” when it comes to agile projects. Product [...]

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4th March, 2014

The Agile Project Manager—Listen to your [...]

I was working with an organization a few weeks ago on a coaching assignment. They’ve been experiencing quite a bit of attrition within their technology teams and the discussio [...]

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27th February, 2014

In Search of the Elusive MMF, part-2

Continuing from the last post, I want to finish the MMF thoughts… Caution: There is Minimum. Then there is Viable There’s a wonderful Harvard Business Review blog articl [...]

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25th February, 2014

In Search of the Elusive MMF, part-1

Many agile teams are familiar with the requirement artifact called the User Story. I often teach agile requirements in organizations and my favorite analogy for the user story [...]

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18th February, 2014

Micrognosis: A Pre-agile, Agile Story

I want to share a story from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. It’s been on my mind quite a bit of late, as I tell it in some of my agile classes. However, I’m unsure whether the [...]

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13th February, 2014

Agile Done Well -- "Controlled Chaos&qu [...]

As you may or may not know, I’m an active agile coach. While I have a wonderful day job, I often get asked to enter new teams and jump-start them or assess their overall level [...]

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23rd January, 2014

Stand-up and Be Counted

I came across a wonderful post about changing the daily stand-up meeting. It aligned incredibly well with how my own thinking has evolved of late. It’s by Cheryl Hammond from [...]

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20th January, 2014

Technical Debt: Be Ever Vigilant

One of the greatest gifts the agile movement has given us is to quantify something we’ve been ignoring in software development for the last 50 years. That is, the notion that [...]

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16th January, 2014

Danger Will Robinson -- 8 Anti-patterns of [...]

And we continue… Continuing on from the last post, I want to present four more anti-patterns from an Agile Adoption perspective. As I cautioned you the last time, don̵ [...]

Category: Agile Project Management

Category: Agile Project Management

The Agile Project Manager—Please Sir, May I [...]

The Agile Project Manager—Listen to your [...]

The Agile Project Manager—Listen to your [...]

In Search of the Elusive MMF, part-2

In Search of the Elusive MMF, part-1

Micrognosis: A Pre-agile, Agile Story

Agile Done Well -- "Controlled Chaos&qu [...]

Stand-up and Be Counted

Technical Debt: Be Ever Vigilant

Danger Will Robinson -- 8 Anti-patterns of [...]