This one is for Mhano. Book 2 of 11 for the PMI Agile PM certification syllabus – Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwarber, 2004. Okay well firstly it is obviously about Scrum and doesn’t cover anything XP or ‘A’gile related. Given that it is getting a bit on in age I thought there would be …
I was recently reading a thread on the Agile Alliance group on Linked In where Matthew Weaver was asking for some thoughts about why Waterfall is demeaned by those that follow Agile and Scrum. The thread to me got very interested when Scott Ambler brought some metrics to the argument. Challenged: A project is considered challenged …
Over the last few months I have pondered going for PMI’s Agile PM certification. Unsure of how dedicated to this cause I might be, I decided to at least start reading the eleven books on the syllabus and see how I felt after reading one. The first one was “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore …
One of the first few comments to my partner after I touched down back into Brisbane last night was ‘Gosh I’m buggered. It’s been such a long week!’ He smirked at me and shyly commented ‘Monday was a public holiday. And you still have to work tomorrow.’ Was it really just two days? It felt …
Okay so I don’t get asked this question enough but feel a need to justify it to some extent because I am tremendously passionate about it. Why am I, an Agile Coach, so fascinated with MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games)? At its heart the reason is fairly simple – because behaviour is unconstrained, and …
I had the lovely pleasure tonight to see Jean Tabaka in action at the Brisbane YOW night. Topic in reflection: 12 Agile Adoption Failure Modes. My interest was immediately peaked when the opening question was “Ask the four or five people around you what are some of the key causes for an Agile Implementation to …
A fellow coach, lets call him Dr Evil, was recently describing the fun that he was having on an Agile coaching assignment. He was tasked to work with a small PMO (thats project… or in this case Program Management Office) among a number of other teams. He put on a cheeky grin like Dr Evil and I …
Ever had that moment whilst Agile Coaching when you just want to /facepalm but you know professionally you can’t. Here is a list of my more notable moments over a few years (sufficed to say this is not all of those moments): A Standup where the Project Manager stood at the front near the story wall and …
Agile Forest 