Agile

Implementing SCRUM…the basics – part 2

by jkinter February 9, 2010 Agile

In this post, I explained that SCRUM is not a silver bullet and that there some significant barriers to entry for organizations wanting to adopt SCRUM. In this post, I’m going to introduce Agile estimating, planning poker, fibonacci, and velocity. Let’s say that your organization is ready to go, you’ve turned command and control on it’s [...]

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Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum Team

by Josh October 5, 2009 Agile

Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the co-creators of the Scrum software development process. He and Ken Schwaber invented Scrum in 1993. Since then he has worked with many software companies and IT organizations to extend and enhance this process.

I’ll add a bit about the Nokia Test and Shock Therapy, but you’ll have to watch the video for the rest.

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(Video) From PM to Agile Coach & Management Roles in Agile

by Josh September 18, 2009 Agile

These are some great videos from Lyssa Adkins on her journey from project manager to agile coach. Very interesting and well done!

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Scrum Revisited: Video Edition

by Josh September 11, 2009 Agile

I’ve been crazy again about Scrum recently and wanted to share these great videos with you.  All are entertaining and relatively short, and good for Scrum newbies. Enjoy! Scrum Basics This is one of the best “intro to Scrum” video I’ve ever seen!  The first minute is a little slow, but it gets better after [...]

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Agile… No PM Needed?

by Josh July 23, 2009 Agile

Today I want to address this comment that was left on a previous post here at pmStudent.com: Anon Simple, adopt agile methods, which incorporate self organizing teams. Just like that, no PM needed. Now I am studying PM, but its only to make me a better member of modern agile self-organizing generalist teams. My Reply: [...]

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Get Developers Pumped About Project Management

by Josh May 20, 2009 Agile

Yep, that’s what I said. This is a great presentation of how one firm utilizes SCRUM in the real world.  Jim Kinter and I have both written about SCRUM on this site before, and I think this video does a wonderful job of giving you a feel for it. It’s also played to some hip [...]

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