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How do you determine if an Agile Project is successful – Lean Coffee March 8 2013
I was unable to make the Virtual Lean Coffee community meeting to discuss Agile Software Project issues this week, but I did have a chance to connect with the WFS, SDLC Consultant who hosted the meeting. These two topics were prioritized for discussion: How to determine if an Agile software project is successful Should [...]
How does a CIO keep their software project on course?
During a recent Agile Scrum Boot Camp in Toronto the instructor, Rod Bray, made the statement that a plane traveling from Toronto Pearson Airport to Heathrow Airport was off course 85% of the time, but since it’s always making course corrections the aircraft arrives at its destination. Generally students are surprised by this comment. I [...]
CIO tool for Agile Project Management
Agile Scrum successes in 2012 – what is next? Over the past 12 months it has been great to watch our clients transform themselves from waterfall or in some cases ad-hoc software project management to adopting a software development delivery process based on Agile and Scrum. The team results have been significant, Indigo with their [...]
Agile Team Capacity Planning – Where Has All the Time Gone?
The Good Old Days When I started my career in the early ‘80s there were fewer distractions. I would start my day and, except for quick trips to the coffee pot, I would work without distraction until lunch. The same thing would repeat for the afternoon. Except for the 2 magazines that rotated past my [...]
Agile Dysfunction Series Part 2: Sticking to Your Role
Teamwork A basic tenet of forming an Agile team is that it should be comprised of a variety of individuals representing a variety of skill sets. The term we use is cross-functional. It is expected that one or more team members will possess skills to elicit and explore the nuances of a User Story when [...]
Agile Principles & Scrum Practices
The Difference Between Agile & Scrum When asked to explain the difference between Agile & Scrum, I find it helpful to think in terms of principles and practices: Principles of course are those large ideas that guide what we do Practices are the actual things we wind up doing An example of an Agile principle [...]
Agile Training and Coaching Toronto – No Cold Storage Issue Here!
The Challenge of Getting Transfer of Skills on the Job One of the biggest challenges corporate learning practitioners face is the ability to ensure learning transfer occurs, that there is real life implementation of the new skill, and that it’s done consistently and over the long term. Our agile training strategies can include detailed follow-on [...]
What is Agile Software Development?
What is agile software development? It’s a project management framework that emphasizes… High performing teams, not high performing individuals Getting started when “just enough” detail is available Responding quickly to change Customer engagement & feedback Frequent delivery the highest business value software It’s not fundamentally different from what you know about software development. The phases [...]
5 Tips for the daily Scrum
Things You Must Do In a Scrum Meeting Scrum Meetings – those 15-minute “stand up” meetings that we do every morning – are a simple, powerful tool to keep your project moving. But it’s easy to go off the rails and lose the effectiveness of these meetings. I’ve listed five tips that we can emphasize [...]
