Category Archives: agile

Who Is Agile? A book on LeanPub

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Johanna

Yves Hanoulle has edited a book, called Who Is agile? Full disclosure: I am in the book. I love this book. Not because I am in it, but because of all the back-stories, the pictures, and the links. And, oh … Continue reading →

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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Johanna

A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not Scrum for these reasons: The project manager and product owner start the release planning and ask the team if the … Continue reading →

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Who’s Playing Agile Schedule Games Posted

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Johanna

My new Gantthead column is up, Who’s Playing Agile Schedule Games? If you liked the schedule games from the more traditional projects, you’ll love the agile schedule games. Please comment over there.

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Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Johanna

I’ve been working with several management teams who want me to train them or their project managers to take over the agile training. It’s not unreasonable from their perspective—it’s how they’ve transitioned to all the other process improvement approaches over … Continue reading →

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Edit Those Epics Posted

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Johanna

Edit Those Epics: Stories Don’t Span Iterations was posted on Techwell, the new site of Stickyminds.com. Yes, I will have to figure out how to change my tags/categories. Please do leave comments over there, I will be responding.

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Economics, Models, and Money

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Johanna

Israel Gat had a great Agile Cutter Advisor recently, the Friction of Agile (registration required). He discussed the friction of agile going up in geographically distributed teams because of the dis-economies of assimilation (the space-time continuum problem, and the issue … Continue reading →

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Reducing Your Own WIP and Yves’ Who Is Series

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Johanna

As a business owner, I have to remember to manage my own WIP, work in progress. Yves Hanoulle recently wrote about his own encounter with his wip limits, and what he decided to do it with respect to his “Who … Continue reading →

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Agile, Power, and Culture

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Johanna

As I work with more organizations and across more cultures, I’ve been realizing that agile exposes a huge piece of the power in the organization that many people may not want exposed. I didn’t have a name for until I … Continue reading →

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What’s an Agile PM to Do?

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Johanna

My Gantthead column, What’s an Agile PM to do? is up over at Gantthead.com. Please do leave comments over there.

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Speaking at Sept 19 Yahoo! Program Management Council

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Johanna

I’m giving at a talk at the Sept 19 Yahoo! Program Management Council, Managing for Collaboration. You might think this is a bit of an oxymoron: Managing for collaboration? But when you have programs, collections of projects where the business … Continue reading →

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