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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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Implementing SCRUM…the basics – Part 1

by jkinter December 31, 2008 Agile

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 [...]

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SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes

by Josh December 12, 2008 Agile

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

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PMI Global Congress 2008 Debrief

by Josh October 23, 2008 Grab Bag

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.

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Project Management: A Developer Speaks Out

by Josh August 31, 2008 Misc

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

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SCRUM Concepts in Traditional PM

by Josh March 8, 2008 Agile

I wrote earlier about a potential method of using Critical Chain-stype “mini-buffers” within an element of a traditional project management approach. Now I would like to revisit multi-tasking and how having some experience with the Agile software development methodology called SCRUM has helped me formulate some guidelines. Some of these ideas come straight from Critical Chain too, and a myriad of other methodologies all pointing to the same conclusions.

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