The good news is that agile has name recognition. The bad news is that a number of organizations are trying to start agile in a big-bang way, especially on programs. Program management is hard enough without throwing a new approach to projects into the mix. Since so many of you are emailing me about this, […]
I’ve been working with teams and been a part of teams my entire work life. Not so much at university, but certainly when I started working professionally. I’ve been confused by what some people claim are self-organizing teams. To me, they don’t look particularly self-organizing. I read Brad Appleton’s excellent series of blog posts on
It’s a good thing I said my post about musings was just that–musings! I didn’t bring all of you along. Sorry about that. Let me be more clear. A program is a collection of projects, where the value is in the overall deliverable. Yes, each project may have a deliverable that’s valuable, but the value
My column at Gantthead, The Agile Project Manager: To Facilitate, Serve and Protect is posted. Enjoy!
Last week, when I was on vacation, my most recent Stickyminds column went up. I somehow expected more comments. Maybe other people were on vacation, too?
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I wrote a little article about Barriers to Agility in the most recent version of PragPub, the online magazine from the Pragmatic Bookshelf. There’s a bunch of other good articles in there, too. Andy Lester has a great article about speaking as a way to practice interviewing, a bunch of comments/thoughts/rants about the iPad, and
I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks, first preparing and then delivering the teleclass, 3 Crucial Factors for Preventing Your Agile Titanic. If you missed the call, you can still sign up for the replay. If you like what you heard on the replay, join us for the whole series of calls, starting Feb
Wow! I can hardly believe how many people have signed up for the brand-new free teleclass, “3 Crucial Factors For Preventing Your Agile Titanic” that Gil Broza and I will be teaching next week! I guess we struck a nerve with many people who want (or need) to get Agile going, and who don’t have
I have a question for you: Have you come across team whose first attempt at Agile adoption resulted in conflicts, pain, or just fell short of expectations? I’ve met plenty of teams like that. I’ve heard statements like “nobody knew what they were doing”, “management still dictated an impossible deadline” and “those sprints became small