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Agile project teams that skip demos put their outcomes at risk – for each sprint as well as the overall release. The reason that is often given for not having…

Most agile project management models have a key role called the Product Owner. Here’s how strong product owners can make agile projects successful. The product owner ensures agile project teams…

3 Steps to delivering high-value projects, why you should stop doing more with less.  “We must do more with less.” This over-used phrase is often heard in organizations that recently…

Starting use of agile methods to deliver projects will pose challenges to any organization new to agile. Organizations that start by providing a common basis for training their teams, their…

During some recent work with a client company that is new to the use of Agile frameworks for managing technology projects; the client’s author and a manager set up a…

Agile practitioners often bring differing points of view on their sizing scales for feature and story point estimating. It is important for scrum masters, product owners, and teams not to…

In environments where everything is a top priority, nothing is a top priority. A key responsibility of senior leadership is ruthless project prioritization, leaving no doubt as to the organization’s…

One of the things I’ve been saying about project management for a very long time is that it needs to be able to scale down. Over the long term, senior…

Interested in finding out about the impact of co-location on productivity? Some articles have discussed the unpopularity of open office concepts while pointing out the increased productivity of remote workers.…