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Work From Home? Three Ideas for Better Project Agility

Work From Home? Three Ideas for Better Project Agility Samantha, an agile manager, had a big problem. Back before everyone had to work from home, they had pretty good results with their standard agile approach. However, now that this eight-person team worked from home, they had these problems: The team didn’t share the same work …

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Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning

Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning Do you ever feel under pressure to finish “all” of whatever this project is? And, the project might unfold in various ways, so you can’t quite plan “all” of it? Enter rolling-wave planning. You don’t have to know everything. You only have to know where you …

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See Your Agile Estimation Traps

See Your Agile Estimation Traps Agile estimation. Nothing seems to bring more fervor to an argument than by pairing the words “agile” and “estimate.” Well, controversy doesn’t bother me. Here are three estimation traps I’ve seen in agile teams: An expert signs up for their own stories, thinking it will help the team’s throughput. Your …

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See Your Agile Measurement Traps

See Your Agile Measurement Traps In honor of my new book, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver, this is the second in a series of four trap emails, the measurement trap. Here are three common measurement traps: You/your management thinks velocity is a target or a measure of progress. Someone (often a …

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The Value of Planning

The Value of Planning I like my plans. I have several levels of plans: a year or so specifically for books and workshops, a 6-month roadmap so I stay on track or change my track, a one-month week-by-week proposed roadmap, and a weekly plan. I use a kanban board to manage my weekly plans. (See …

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The Case Against Stable Teams, Part 2

The Case Against Stable Teams, Part 2 In The Case for Stable Teams, Part 1 , I wrote about stable teams as a way to create jelled teams. My guideline was that the longer it took for people to be useful in the team, the more you needed a stable team. Otherwise, the cost of …

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The Case For Stable Teams, Part 1

The Case for Stable Teams, Part 1 A long-time reader, Al, asked me about jelled teams. What makes a team jell? Would I please write an email about that? This is part 1 of 3 part series about teams. Often, a manager forms a new team. The team storms as the people establish themselves and …

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Iterations and Increments: For Any Project

Iterations and Increments: For Any Project A project manager, Dave, is struggling with his project. His organization is not interested in using agile. Agile has a bad name, given their three-time attempt to adopt agile. (I’ll address that problem in another Pragmatic Manager.) That’s fine. Agile is not for everyone. However, Dave knows that prototyping …

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Knowledge, Risks and Guarantees

Knowledge, Risks, and Guarantees One senior manager in an organization trying to use agile told me about his problems, “We still need to know when the project will be done. We can’t afford the risk of missing the deadline. When we spent all that time on requirements, the team knew what they were doing. We …

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Plan, Plan, Plan

Plan, Plan, Plan Do you like planning? You might be one of those people who likes to make lists and plan in great detail. I love my lists. I’m not big on huge, ginormous plans, but I do like a list of what to do now and the picture of where I’m headed. You might …

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