Agile
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Agile tools do NOT make you Agile
Ask yourself the following questions: Do great golf clubs make you a great golfer? Does a formula one race make…
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Estimation and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
I’m not a fan of using schedule or cost estimate as a way to value the projects in your project…
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How Product Ownership works in the Real World
Scrum continues to insist that a single person play the role of Product Owner on a development project. One person…
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Managing Success in Devil’s Triangle of Software; Projects, Project Managers and Developers
I am not a project manager of any kind and never interested to be one. I am not a huge…
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Beyond the Product Demo: Choosing the Right Validation Technique in Scrum
Summary Scrum employs the product demo as its default technique to understand if the right product with the right features…
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Design Your Agile Project, Part 4
If you are thinking of agile as part of a program, each team has to have its own approach to…
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Agile – What’s a Manager to Do?
As a manager, when I first started learning about Agile development, I was confused by the fuzzy way that Agile…
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Design Your Agile Project, Part 3
What do you do for geographically distributed teams, if you want to move to agile? First question: does the team…
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Scrum Masters: What Makes a Good One?
Yes, that’s right. I am writing a blog post today about Scrum and Scrum Masters. No, I haven’t lost my…
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