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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5
I am still making progress, although it’s more difficult to see my progress today. Why? Because I did not get as much to done. One of my readers asked a question about the Urgent queue and the relative ranking of … Continue reading
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Tagged kanban, lean, personal kanban, project management, project portfolio management
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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 4
I’m still chugging along, making great progress. I took some interruptions yesterday, as many people do. They are not reflected on my kanban. They are in my calendar, which I am not showing you :-) A potential client emailed, asked … Continue reading
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Tagged kanban, lean, personal kanban, project management, project portfolio management
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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 3
I’ve been busy crossing work off my list. And, as with all of us busy people, I’m adding more work to my list. I feel as if I’ve accomplished a lot this week. It’s just about time to rewrite my … Continue reading
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Tagged kanban, lean, personal kanban, project management, project portfolio management
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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 2
I’ve made great progress on Day 1, and I wasn’t even in the office all day! You can see I’ve added more todos, at the bottom of my queue. I discovered two urgent todo’s. I had a call-back, to reschedule … Continue reading
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Tagged kanban, lean, personal kanban, project management, project portfolio management
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Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 1
I use a form of personal kanban inside one-week iterations to finish my work and notice what I am not doing. I do this to maintain a cadence of blogging and to finish work. Did you notice that word, finish? … Continue reading
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Tagged kanban, lean, personal kanban, project management, project portfolio management
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Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program
One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I am quite fond of continuous integration, no matter how large your program is. I also like short iterations. (Remember Short … Continue reading
Posted in program management
Tagged agile, agile architecture, continuous integration, lean, work in progress
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Managing Programs With Agile and Traditional Projects
Imagine you are transitioning to agile. You are a program manager, with a couple of agile projects, and a couple of traditional projects. How do you manage the program? Here’s what a program team looks like. For the sake of … Continue reading
Programs, TItles, and Business Value
I keep hearing a lot about “chief” this and “chief” that when it comes to Big Agile, aka program management. You know, chief product owner, chief architect, that kind of thing. I’m kind of puzzled. I thought agile was all … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, architect, lean, product owner, project management, scaling agile, transition to agile
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Agile Project Management Tutorial, AgileIndy Conf, March 7, 2013
Are you interested in how to manage agile projects? Thinking of transitioning to agile? Available on March 7, 2013? I am leading an experiential one-day tutorial in conjunction with AgileIndy to introduce the ideas of agile project management to people … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, conference, lean, transition to agile, tutorial
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Gold, Silver, Bronze Comparison for the Project Portfolio Requires Collaboration
When I was in Brazil teaching the project portfolio workshop, one of the participants explained that his organization sometimes did a form of gold/silver/bronze comparison among the projects. Here’s how it works. Everyone wrote their project names on stickies. The … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, collaboration, lean, Manage Your Project Portfolio, project ranking
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