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Heres a good recorded webinar on how to scale Agile with Scrum and Kanban: This topic is usually discussed from the perspective of typical small, co-located Agile team, but this webinar looks at it from how to scale it using Scrum and Kan...
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Sure, we like to think we can control the successful outcome of our projects, but as we all know, there are often times organizational barriers that are just too hard to overcome. This article on InfoQ list some common barriers thats helpful to k...
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Software development and project management are very serious technical topics, so to add a little levity to your day, I present this video of how a Scrum-Master actually acts as a Scum-Master (please note the semantic differences!): Enjoy!
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As part of my continuing series on Agile practices and techniques that extend outside the boundaries of software development, I stumbled upon a couple resources that resonate with me as a one time student and now part time faculty instructor for con...
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Ive posted this topic and question in various forums related to project management and I think it has direct bearing on Agile and for any management method, framework or process for that matter. So Im reposting on this blog to see what PM.com member...
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I saw this interesting thread in a LinkedIn discussion group for Agile and Lean Software Development,that questions the the common perception of Agile being an iterative method and process. Im guilty of this myself as I often talk about Agile method...
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In part one of my Kanban and Beyond series of articles, I discuss the manufacturing roots of Kanban that many of us in the IT project management industry are not aware of that originated in Japan for Toyota over 30 years ago. But this may give the p...
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Heres an interesting video on how Kanban is implemented in TFS for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 toolsets: TFS is a service that allows you to remotely manage your software development efforts both locally and with remote teams. Intere...
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And sure enough, this post by InfoWorld quotes a survey done by VersionOne on the leading cause of Agile failure: In the surveys seventh year, we dug a bit deeper into why agile initiatives fail and found that in two-thirds of the cases, it was ei...
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As part of my continuing series of posts on Agile going beyond the software development industry, I like to mention this article I ran into talking about how Agile principles were appropriated from the software development community and leveraged fo...
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