Can CSMs and PMPs Get Along?
A hot topic in the Scrum community of late has been whether the agile framework is compatible with traditional project management. Lately, an intellectual curiosity about the other has materialized in...
View ArticleThe Agile Manifesto and Twelve Principles
In February 2001 seventeen software developers met at a ski resort in Snowbird, Utah to do some skiing while spending time reflecting on what defined the core principles of agile software development...
View ArticleEstimating Earned Business Value on Agile Projects
A pattern I’ve noticed is that Scrum projects are typically managed informally, with the only measures used being various velocity metrics and burndown charts. This may be an issue. Many project...
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Agile and PPM – Q&A
The webinar, “A Marriage Made in Heaven: Agile and Project Portfolio Management,” took place on October 27. I (David Parker) hosted, along with Russ King, Vice President, Product Development, Results...
View ArticleStrategic Vision and Scrum
When organizations adopt an agile approach to development like Scrum there is so much focus on the iterative nature of agile development that long range vision and strategic product design can get...
View ArticleTechnical Debt – The High Cost of Change
My consultants and indeed my own software development teams often grapple with technical debt. often Products carry technical debt when they are difficult or risky to change. Technical debt isn’t...
View ArticleComplexity and cost of change
There are many variables to estimating the difficulty of a code changes. We could talk about things like the complexity of the code (Cyclomatic Complexity), the experience of the programmers, their...
View ArticleResults of an Agile Assessment
We recently set a team of consultants from my company to conduct a formal assessment of a medium sized financial firm’s an Agile capabilities. I’d like to share thew approach here. The team went on...
View ArticleCulture at the core
Here’s a link to a number of blog posts I’ve been reading that have culture and transformation at the core. I’ve aggregated my favorites. Feel free to add to the list below in the comments section....
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Should Scrum Always Require the Product Owner to Attend the Sprint...
[Editor's note: this is a guest post from Michael James, not the owner of this blog. The owner of this blog does not necessarily agree with any or all of the content herein.] I’ve been talking with...
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