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Agile

Agile and Distributed Teams: research results

April 27, 2012

I’ve been working with ProjectsAtWork this year to research and analyse good practices for making Agile successful with distributed teams. Agile isn’t the first approach you would think of to manage a project with team members spread all over the world, but actually it is a really common approach. Why people use Agile with a [...]

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PMI Launches Agile Certification

March 7, 2011

Agile techniques are increasingly important to project managers and the organizations they serve, and PMI hasn’t been blind to this fact. There was enough publicity about Agile at the Global Congress in Washington, D.C. last year that I don’t think it is much of a surprise the PMI has chosen to embrace agile practices and [...]

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Book review: Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century

January 10, 2011
Agile Project Management book cover

“[T]he time has come when we need to admit we (the program/project manager, business customer, product architect/designer, other stakeholders) do not know the solutions to the problems… and indeed, that “we” – our methods, our habits, our leadership styles, our assumptions – are part of the problem,” writes Karen R. J. White in her book, [...]

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The 8 dangers of implementing Agile

November 24, 2010

As if adopting Agile wasn’t scary enough, Keith Richards from KRC talked about the 8 dangers of Agile at the APM conference last month. And here they are: It arrives bottom up “We don’t really want the techies taking over the organisation,” said Keith.  “This bottom up stuff is a bit dangerous.”  He made the [...]

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Why use Kanban?

November 15, 2010

In this video I ask Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com why he has chosen to use Kanban for managing the tasks for his project team. A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Hello! My name is Elizabeth Harrin from the blog “A Girl’s Guide to Project Management” and I’m here today with a fellow [...]

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Debunking Agile

November 10, 2010

Agile is: Change friendly Iterative Collaborative Chunked delivery Communications focused Business focused Scope tolerant Quality focused (if you do it correctly!) These were the themes that set the tone for Keith Richards’ presentation at the APM Conference in London last month.  “The basics of project management seem to have been thrown away with some Agile,” [...]

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