Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category

Dirty Rotten ScrumDrels

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Uncle Bob has provided another interesting piece that focuses on the responsibility of people to do good work on their software projects.

Agile Development Practices Keynote by Brian Marick (Text)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Brian again provides an essential work to the Agile community. Find out how to “work with ease” reading the text of his keynote from the Agile Development Practices conference here.

Scrum is Not the Silver Bullet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.

Scrum Case Studies

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Mark Levison has compiled a listing of great Scrum case studies for those interested in how others do it in this blog entry.

Tasty Cupcakes: Experiential Learning Games

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.

Agile: Anatomy of a failed project

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

This article describes a presentation from Mitch Lacey on “When Working Software is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure” with significant details about what lead to the failure.

Advantages of TDD

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

A list of advantages and a section on disadvantages of Test-Driven Development (TDD) is presented in this blog entry.

Agile Journal - Infrastructure Refactoring

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Mario
Moreira describes how infrastructure can be refactored in a similar nature as code in this article.

Agile Journal - Seven Agile Coach Failure Modes

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Lyssa Adkins defines 7 failure modes for Agile Coaches and provides some advice on how to manage against them in this blog entry.

Transitioning to Agile in the Middle of a Project

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Johanna Rothman provides and explains 3 simple steps teams can follow to transition a Waterfall project to Agile in the middle of the project in this blog entry.