Agile

Agile development has become a popular method of project delivery, with much being written about it today. Project Managers are becoming Scrum Masters, and teams talk about having daily scrum …

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 …

Agile is a term that generates heated debates within the project management and software development communities. This is because not everyone really understands what Agile is, and many people use …

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 …

Daily scrum meetings are necessary for a successful Agile approach. You’ve likely been hearing more these days about teams using Agile to deliver solutions. It’s becoming more popular, and you …

With traditional project management, the focus is on the plan and the work that needs to get done. There is some comfort in managing a plan. It is definable, real, …

Since the authors of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” developed “an alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes,” project management practitioners have adopted elements of Agile frameworks, but many …

In today’s “right now” business environment, “hurry up and wait” annual planning cycles won’t do! To be fit for purpose, PMO processes deliver value faster than the competition—continuously, and certainly …

Scrum does not clearly define any controls. Since Scrum is a risk-reduction framework, it already contains various risk controls. It is important to remember that Scrum is designed to solve …