Blog Feed: Agile Project Management

Out of Iteration Software Bugs

Published on 2010-05-31 22:57:00

I did a presentation last week at an Agile event and during the Q and A session one of the questions was about “out of iteration bugs”. Specifically how are they handled? Good question, not all the bugs found in a software project will come from

To Squawk or not to Squawk

Published on 2010-05-03 21:31:00

The daily standup meeting is one of the core concepts of Scrum. In the meeting the team members talk about just three things: What I did yesterday What am I doing today What are my impediments And that’s it…�� However, the t

Agile and Team Motivation - Goals

Published on 2010-03-01 23:26:00

I recently started a series based on an Esther Derby Amplify discussion about how to demotivate a team. Esther mentioned in her discussion that unclear and changing goals are a big demotivator for a software development team. Besides agreeing whole h

Agile and Team Motivation

Published on 2010-02-14 19:11:00

Esther Derby makes some good points here about how to demotivate a team. What struck me about her points is that they are exactly opposite to how a good Agile software development team works. Esther wrote “What demotivates people? Bureaucracy

Use Cases in an Agile Project

Published on 2009-10-16 16:12:00

Use cases in an agile project? You bet, use cases are perfect to augment user stories as use cases can give more context to the person reading them. Use cases can also be used by the product owner to check for user story gaps in the product back log.

Innovation Presentation

Published on 2009-09-13 09:50:00

I saw this presentation on LinkedIn today and wanted to share.

Failing Fast is a Good Thing

Published on 2009-03-30 21:33:00

One of the benefits of switching to agile project management methodologies is the opportunity to fail fast. As a point of comparison, think about how waterfall projects work. The business requirements are assembled into a software specification.

User Story Format Thoughts

Published on 2009-03-14 09:40:00

Recently I posted about a common user story format. I’m starting to see more and more discussion about this user story format and how some feel that it is too constrained. One proposal was to swap the value and actor sections. I’m trying to

Communicating Agile

Published on 2009-03-01 22:49:00

Here’s a surefire way to fail with your Agile implementation. Ignore the other parts of the business that are used to dealing with schedule driven projects. It’s not enough to get the project team onboard with Agile, you need to spread the word a

Agile Thinking – Enhance Personal Productivity

Published on 2009-02-15 18:16:00

It’s a tough world right now, most organizations are being asked to get more done with less. In an earlier post I talked about MoSCoW ratings as a way to prioritize user stories. MoSCoW ratings can be used to prioritize many things. Prioritizing