Posted by Laura Howley on March 28, 2012
In my last few Agile Basics classes, I have noticed a welcome trend: People with roles outside of IT are attending classes in conjunction with the development teams. People from sales, marketing, accounting, HR and even executive branches have started to recognize that learning about Agile has a positive impact on the whole organization. Agilists [...]
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Posted by Michael James on March 19, 2012
The ideas behind Agile (before it was a buzzword) largely arose from practitioners looking to eliminate painful or silly management practices between them and their craft. When I first did Scrum, it was more fun than any way I’d worked before. As a member of a self organizing team, we negotiated Sprint Goals with the [...]
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Posted by Angela Druckman on March 6, 2012
On March 5th, I presented the webinar, “Building a Better Backlog: Strategies for Long Term Success in Agile Development.” In the session, I shared strategies on how to build and maintain a good product backlog by describing the overall concepts and techniques for backlog management and how each of the project contributors can contribute to [...]
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Posted by Laura Howley on February 9, 2012
The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece on the Agile practice of daily stand-up (or daily Scrum) meetings and specifically the fact that Agile encourages standing up during stand-up meetings. While I’m impressed and amused that the author managed to fill several paragraphs discussing standing up in stand-up meetings, the fact that the Wall [...]
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Posted by David Parker on December 10, 2011
Earlier this week, we ran a webinar entitled “Technical Debt – the High Cost of Future Change”. The topic was of course, technical debt in Agile projects. Although we left what we thought was ample time for questions, as it turned out there were many more than we had time for. So, as promised, we [...]
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Posted by David Parker on November 1, 2011
On October 27th, I co-presented the webinar, “A Marriage Made in Heaven: Agile and Project Portfolio Management,” with Russ King, Vice President, Product Development, Results Positive, Inc. and Caleb Brown, Systems Engineer at CollabNet. We explored the benefits of marrying Agile Project Management and PPM and we did a live demo showing this using HP’s [...]
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