The 7 deadly sins of Agile

The 7 deadly sins of Agile

When conduction Agile, heres a list of 7 deadly sins to avoid:

1. Forget to get early feedback Its important to get feedback early on for items such as user stories, product requirements, Agile charter, etc. to your reviewers as early as you can….

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Free Market PM Beware: When crowdfunding projects fail

Free Market PM Beware: When crowdfunding projects fail

In my last post, I talked about the crowdfunding model as an example of free market forces working in favor of the entrepreneurial project manager.  A…

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Free Market PM Revisited: Spacehive as crowdfunding model

Free Market PM Revisited: Spacehive as crowdfunding model

In my previous post outlining the idea of a free market PM, I talk about the idea of an entrepreneurial PM who seeks out projects rather…

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The third face of Agile: A solution in search of a problem

The third face of Agile: A solution in search of a problem

In thisblogbyMike Cottmeyer, he talks about the two faces of Agile where one isemergent, in that you are involved in an RD like project where you are experimenting, learning, and adapting (your) approach based on super-fast feedback cycles and the o…

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What really motivates teams?

What really motivates teams?

Found this info-graphic (I love these forms of displaying captivating information in a single graph) on how to motivate employees on the rypple.com site that…

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Free Market Project Manager?

Free Market Project Manager?

On the Projects@Work site, there’s a series of articles advocating that project managers adopt and or work within a pure free market environment by writer…

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Building a car in 90 days using Scrum!

Building a car in 90 days using Scrum!

In line with my recent postings about Agile/Scrum being deployed outside software development, heres a TED video about a sports car called Wikispeed that was built and deployed using Scrum and crowdsourcing:

As further proof of this movem…

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Demand for project managers on the rise in India

Demand for project managers on the rise in India

This article from the “India Economic Times” seems to indicate that despite the overall global downturn of the economy,that the hiring of project managers is…

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The genetic structure of high performance teams

The genetic structure of high performance teams

I was directed to the following graphic on Gantthead’s Facebook page, which I think is a great outline of the ingredients required for high performing teams:

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Agile for radio program development?

Agile for radio program development?

Ive written numerous blogs here about Agile practices and methods that go outside of software development such as my recent one about thegovernmentadoption of Agile, to orchestras that are runwithoutconductors, and evenbabyplanning using Scrum. Anot…

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