All Posts Tagged With: "Software Project Management"

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Agile101 Goes International!

Agile 101 is now available in 21 languages (!) including: French, German, Hindi, Portugese, Italian, Spanish…

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Agile Epic Board – Epic Card Template

Although I use this board to track our development programme across multiple products, teams and sprints, the Epic Board can also be a very useful project management tool. See The Epic Board – An Essential Project Management Tool.

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Sprint Backlog Template with Objective-Level Burndowns

A Sprint Backlog Template is used to track progress against Sprint Commitments.

This Sprint Backlog template is slightly more complex than your bog-standard template as it also allows you to track Stretch Tasks and Sprint Progress at a Category/Objective-Level.

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Agile Project Management is Like Teenage Sex

I just stumbled upon a really funny, tongue-in-cheek comparison between Agile Adoption and Teenage Sex of all things. It made me laugh so I thought I’d share it!

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Doing Agile is a Sign of Incompetence

There seems to be a lot of hype around about the difference between ‘Doing Agile’ and ‘Being Agile’ – the conversation seems to be getting rather heated to say the least!…

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Agile Estimation and the Cone of Uncertainty

The Cone of Uncertainty is a Project Management term used to describe the level of uncertainty existing at different stages of a project.

In short, we become more certain of our estimates as we learn more about what we’re estimating.

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Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great

A really informative Google Tech Talk by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby, authors of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

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An Introduction to Lean for Agile Managers

Diana Larsen, chair of the Agile Alliance, delivers a really informative, and easy-to-follow seminar on the subject of Lean for Agile Managers. In this seminar, Diana explains the origins of Lean, elaborates upon the seven core Principles of Lean and offers insight into ways to maximise value and reduce waste.

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Agile Scrum Team – Roles & Responsibilities

The Scrum Team is responsible for the high-quality and timely delivery of sprint commitments in line with the expectations of the Product Manager.
The Scrum Team is cross-functional and multi-skilled- they know their strengths and work together to support eachother through challenging times.

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Prioritising for Profit – Creating and Prioritising Product Backlogs

This is a fantastic lecture by Luke Hohmann, CEO of Enthiosys, an Agile Product Management Consulting firm. In this seminar, Luke talks us through the process of Creating and Prioritising a Product Backlog in a way that drives Profit.

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