Project Mgmt.

  • submit to reddit

Minimalism, The New Innovative

There’s so much room for observations and analogies in the evolution of production trends. Analogies are not merely a candy for the brain. They bring...

0 replies - 1938 views - 03/15/10 by Olga Kouzina in News

Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time

Yesterday I had a bit of an argument on Twitter about differences between Scrum and Kanban. Personally I don't care which is better than the other, ...

5 replies - 2300 views - 03/12/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

The Art of Agile Development: Releasing

Full Text The following text is excerpted from The Art of Agile Development by James Shore and Shane Warden (O'Reilly 2007). Copyright © 2008 James...

0 replies - 1214 views - 03/12/10 by James Shore in News

Mylyn Expands

Today, the Eclipse Mylyn project is announcing a major restructuring with the creation of several different sub-projects for each key Application Lifecycle...

2 replies - 22062 views - 03/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Exclusive Case Study Preview: Estimation as a Tool

This case study is excerpted from the book, Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering, authored by Carol Hoover, Mel Rosso-Llopart and...

0 replies - 8795 views - 02/26/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

CollabNet Goes Agile, Acquires Danube

Today, CollabNet announced that it has acquired Danube Technologies, a company that develops Scrum project management software and conducts Scrum certification...

0 replies - 2960 views - 02/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Pulling the plug...

What happens when the plug is pulled too soon on an initiative's budget?Process implementation, process improvement, and process reengineering initiatives...

0 replies - 1112 views - 02/22/10 by Joshua Barnes in News

Our Obsesssion with Efficiency

Dan North doesn't believe in efficiency -- it's our obsession with efficiency that has got us into the current technology mess, and which has led almost...

1 replies - 6401 views - 02/15/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Product Owners in Practice

At the risk of being accused of bashing Scrum for the second time this week, I want to talk a little about the Product Owner role. What I want to explore...

1 replies - 1254 views - 02/15/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Leaders Need Vision

Leaders of process improvement initiatives need vision (note not the vision artifact from the unified process).  A lot of the clients that I engage with...

0 replies - 890 views - 02/12/10 by Joshua Barnes in News

Moving Items Backwards on a Kanban Board

A question that comes up a lot and is discussed at great length during Kanban conferences is whether or not you should move an item backwards on a Kanban...

0 replies - 5567 views - 02/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Agile Adoption past the Team

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Mike Cottmeyer explores a 3 month coaching engagement where one of his customers needed to coordinate...

0 replies - 1347 views - 02/09/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Replacing the Iron Triangle of Project Management?

Last year sometime, I heard Jim Highsmith do a talk on replacing the traditional project management iron triangle with a new 'agile triangle' that is based...

1 replies - 5273 views - 02/04/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Flow. Discover Problems and Waste in Kanban

You Kanbanized your development process and setup a perfect flow. You see the flow and feel its power. You even measure cycle time and want to reduce it....

2 replies - 1631 views - 02/02/10 by Michael Dubakov in News

Explaining Agile

Doing what I do for a living, I find myself often trying to explain agile concepts to folks that are relatively new to agile methodologies. Sometimes this...

1 replies - 2957 views - 02/01/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News