Josh asked me to write about some of the challenges and obstacles that we face in our environment. In order to do that I should explain a little about that environment.

Over the past 36 months we have transformed ourselves… Read more »

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 ear, [...] Read more »

Guest post by Erika Flora
With the current economic conditions, an increasing number of people are either afraid of losing their jobs or desperately searching for work. Just like it’s a buyer’s market for housing, it also seems to be a buyer’s market for employers. Those who are hiring can be extremely selective in whom they [...] Read more »

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 that.

Agile Developement [...] Read more »

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 [...] Read more »

I started to write a response to a recent blog post about the effect that a slowing economy will have on the adoption of Agile project management methodologies when I realized from the comments on that site that there may be some folks here that are not yet familiar with Agile/SCRUM. I’m going to speak specifically about [...] Read more »

A simply wonderful introduction video to SCRUM by Hamid Shojaee. Very well done indeed! Read more »

I’m back from Denver and would like to share some highlights with you about the event and the PMI New Media Council that I’m now a part of. Read more »

Brandon Ching wrote a great post about PM from a developer’s point of view…here comes the pmStudent’s response! Read more »