agile project management

Project & Team Management

What Rambling in Meetings Says about Your Team

By watching ourselves and colleagues for rambling in meetings, we can find and address causes of uncertainty in our project and reduce risk.

Project & Team Management

Pitfalls of Integrated Design and Development Burn Charts

Integrated design/development backlogs are a great way of coordinating tasks, but integrated burn charts are another story.

Project & Team Management

7 Ways to Keep Your Big Project Agile

As team size increases, we can stay agile by refactoring our project management practices.

Project & Team Management

Time-Based Estimates Are for Suckers! (Size-based Is the Way to Go)

GLSEC 2013 presentation addressing three challenges of adopting size-based estimation of software projects.

Project & Team Management

Tear Down the Walls! (part deux): Reorganizing Teams Around Epics

Development teams are often hindered by boundaries that exist between teams. Reorganizing teams around epics can help shatter these walls of ownership.

Project & Team Management

Agile XP Meets Critical Chain – Part 1: Getting Faster Delivery

If you're willing to slay a few sacred cows, Agile and Critical Chain can dramatically speed up your software development projects.

Project & Team Management

Eliminate Your Team’s Task Backlog

Turn your team's task backlog into a schedule. Staged backlogs promote frequent and optimal scope management decisions.

Project & Team Management

I Hate Gantt Charts; I Love Gantt Charts

I despaired of concretely estimating my project in any meaningful way. How could I put numbers on something so big, so unknown? The answer — a big Gantt chart.

Project & Team Management

Prune Your Backlog

A backlog is often created once and then looked at one iteration at a time. Maintaining it will help you get the best information about your project.

Project & Team Management

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn’t Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn't Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Project & Team Management

The Tao of Agile

Agile is not about iterative development. It's not about user research or TDD. Agility won't be found in open workspaces - or in cubicles. Agile is an attitude.

Project & Team Management

Agile at Scale – The Small Scale

At first glance, it may seem like projects that have a team of one (or less) don't warrant or benefit from Agile techniques. However, it is still valuable.