That often depends on who you ask. Some will say it is the Scrum Master. Some will insist it is the Product Owner. Some people will insist there isn’t one – technically, by name only, there isn’t one. But I am here to tell you that A) There […]
*The following is written by guest blogger Salarco Since 2012, I’ve been working for an international organization that promotes leadership through different kinds of cross-cultural exchanges for young people between 18 and 30 years old. Our goal is to promote peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential through […]
There is a claim among people that Agile teams are leaderless. The claim can sound reasonable on the surface, with all the talk about self-organizing teams and a lack of defined roles… But it is wrong for several reasons: Self-organizing does not mean leaderless Agile is not a […]
Background noises, a dozen conversations, and coworkers gnashing on their lunch. The ring of someone’s phone every couple of minutes, an impromptu meeting being carried out that has nothing to do with me, and someone is talking louder and louder as they try to be heard. Someone tells […]
My guest blog post on making the best choices for your processes and tools. Originally published on tapscape.com In Agile, there is often an insistence on using low-tech and high-touch tools to collaborate and report on task statuses. While these tools may work, you shouldn’t limit your choices […]
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Familiar – Noun, a supernatural spirit or demon, often in the form of an animal, supposed to serve and aid a witch or other individual. Project managers frequently wish that they had a trusted right-hand person who could help them…
A communication plan, you should have one in place anyway. Whether your team is all in one building, room, or distributed; a plan to deal with how everyone communicates is critical to the success of your activities. We need rules in place that say your IT server administrator […]
MoSCoW prioritization (or the MoSCoW method) is a tool used in all sorts of professions and industries to provide a structure for prioritizing work tasks. It is most commonly associated with the Agile approach Dynamic Systems Development Methodology, which is where I learned it. The origins appear to be […]
Back in 2017 my wife and I purchased 12 acres of woodland in Northern New York state’s Adirondack mountains. The area is surrounded by woodland and state nature preserves, so the risk of encountering wild animals was definitely present and known. We, of course, researched, (or at least […]
This material (DSDM, Related Images, and Videos) was created by the Agile Business Consortium. https://agilebusiness.org Think of Agile like a toolbox. Within this Agile toolbox, you have several options. You may not know what all the tools are, how they function – half the time your self-proclaimed Agile experts […]
Let me start off by saying, Agile is not just for projects and not just for software development. Agile is NOT Scrum. Agile is also not a methodology or framework. Now that I have that out of the way, let us proceed with a, hopefully, clearer definition of […]
Timeboxing is a time management tool that helps to keep the focus on the priorities by limiting the available time for task completion. You allocate a reasonable amount of time to an activity, and that activity must be completed within that time frame. Do you have deadlines that […]
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