http://agile-project-management.net Using agile project management as an approach to software development with scrum tools. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Agile management practices are great about time-boxing. Daily standups are capped at 15 minutes. Sprints never exceed a repeatable 30-day cadence. But what’s out there to help developers time-box in the short term? One technique that has gained popularity among agile practitioners (and been featured in sessions at the past ... http://agile-project-management.net/pomodoro/ If you work at a large organization where products are developed as constituent parts of over-arching programs, then you know how tricky it can be to track these “shared components.” Well, there’s good news: Danube just published ScrumWorks Pro 4 and its biggest new functionality addresses that very issue. ... http://agile-project-management.net/scrumworks-pro-4-and-epics/ It seems that excitement over agile processes and engineering techniques has finally migrated southward. Well, not “finally.” Last fall, Buenos Aires played host to Ágiles 2008, the inaugural South American conference on all things agile. But last month, the official website for Ágiles 2009 went live. This year, the conference ... http://agile-project-management.net/scrum-comes-to-south-america-in-october/ If the goal of implementing agile project management is to boost productivity and yield highly performing teams, then the last thing a manager or Product Owner should do in that environment is stand in the way. And yet, this article on InfoQ describes how managers—out of intimidation, confusion, or both—have ... http://agile-project-management.net/only-you-can-prevent-%e2%80%9cteamicide%e2%80%9d/ I just ran across an article on InfoQ discussing the phenomenon of hyper-productivity—one that tends to come up a lot in relation to agile practices and Scrum, in particular. Apparently, the Scrum Development Group has seen some lively debate erupt around the topic, as trainers such as Tobias Mayer suggest ... http://agile-project-management.net/the-myth-of-velocity/ One of the biggest criticisms against Scrum and agile evangelists is that their all-or-nothing attitude undermines the very improvements Scrum and agile promise. Of course, those of us who do practice by-the-book Scrum and agile understand why it’s so important to hold fast to those principles and processes: because they’re ... http://agile-project-management.net/agile-dogma/ Based on an earlier discussion of the vitality of the product backlog (according to Dave West, the author of the original article, it’s important, really important), numerous conversations have popped up on user groups and beyond. Best of all, it seems everyone who has chimed in has a slightly different ... http://agile-project-management.net/agile-experts-on-the-backlog/ I just saw this post up at InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/large-team-standups) which discusses how well Scrum’s daily standup meeting functions when teams grow increasingly large. For the Scrum users cited in the article, there’s no mystery as to how useful they are for large teams: not very. According to them, as team ... http://agile-project-management.net/does-size-make-standups-fall-apart/ If you haven’t seen it yet, the full conference program for Agile 2009 has been announced. You can take a look at what’s planned for those five days in August: http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/programOverview http://agile-project-management.net/agile-2009-conference-program-announced/ I don’t know about you, but I’m always searching for great materials—articles, books, blogs, and so on—that explain agile project management methods and techniques in a clear and concise way. I’m trying to amass an archive of materials, so that when a new member joins my team or another team ... http://agile-project-management.net/free-educational-resource-for-scrum-teams/