Agile & Scrum Project Management
Read articles, find tips and advice on implementing agile project management in your own projects. Agile, also known as extreme project management, is a fast and flexible method of managing and controlling complex software. You’ll also learn about Scrum, a popular agile process best suited for rapidly changing projects. Is this the right method to help you meet your project goals?
The Power of Silence for Agile Leaders
On an agile team, it’s important to know what to say, but even more important to know when to say nothing. This article looks at the power of silence in providing leadership to teams – facilitating but allowing the teams to figure it out.
Resourcefulness in Scrum Leadership
This article examines the power of resourcefulness and how this quality can be enhanced and leveraged on teams. While these power techniques are explained in an agile context, they are equally applicable where the methods being use are not called agile!
Fun Ways to Keep Agile Meetings on Track
In agile there are a lot of meetings – but not in the traditional sense. This article dives into the topic of meetings and how to keep them fresh, relevant and fun.
Encouraging Creativity on Agile Teams
Finding ways for teams to have fun starts with identifying impediments and ends with raising creativity by removing them. This article focuses on the power of enabling creativity by examining what blocks it and how to remove these blockers.
What Are the Principles of Lean Product Development?
In an agile context, the practice of lean consists of employing three high-level principles: using visual management tools, identifying customer-defined value and building in learning and continuous improvement. Lean has some similarities to other agile methods but does not include time-boxed work.
Extreme Programming Practices in Agile Project Management
Extreme Programming focuses on software development. In that domain, it borrows on many core agile values, principles, and practices. It also contributes a series of core values, and provides a unique method that can be employed as a whole or in part within the framework of other agile methods.
Defining the Kanban Process in Agile Project Management
Kanban was derived from the lean approach to manufacturing developed by Toyota. It is not time boxed, but rather offers some concepts that can be used to drive efficiency on any agile project. It allows for visualization of the workflow, and empowers the team to own and manage its workflow.
An Overview of the Scrum Method in Agile Project Management
Scrum is the most popular agile method, and the one that is probably most often included in any hybrid agile project management method. It is not to be confused with agile itself; scrum is a single but import agile method. Scrum is particularly strong at prioritizing work and obtaining feedback.
Visualizing an Agile Project to Find Balance
This is the third of four posts on the challenges of agile software development – focusing on the primary challenge of balancing the ultimate goals of the project with the empowerment of agile teams to achieve those goals, one step at a time.
Solutions for Agile Project Management Tension
This is the second of four posts on the challenges of agile software development – indeed focusing on one primary challenge that, if you can get it right, can be the key to agile project success.
