July 2007 – Leading Answers

July 29, 2007Agile Project Management, Estimating, Events, Leadership, Lean, Planning, Risk Management, Teams

New Agile Project Leadership Training Course

In September I will be co-instructing with Sanjiv Augustine the new course “Agile Project Leadership”. Sanjiv is a fellow APLN board member and author of the excellent “Managing Agile Projects” book. I’m really excited because a) we have an excellent course that will stretch attendees while engaging them, and b) co-teaching with Sanjiv will be a blast since he is such a knowledgable and personable expert. Our first course offering will be in Manchester, UK on September 10-11th. You can find further details including a course outline at Agile University here

July 25, 2007October 3, 2026Agile Project Management, Events

Agile / Traditional Dictionary

I’m presenting a beginners session on Agile Project Management entitled "…But it’s not on the project plan!" at the Agile 2007 conference in Atlanta next month. It is targeted towards traditional PMI based project managers and I thought it might be fun and perhaps even useful to give them an Agile to Traditional language translator. So, like a French / English : English / French Dictionary here are some translations to help the two camps communicate. This dictionary is also available as a PDF for download, the link at the end of the article. Agile to Traditional Adaptive – Frequently responding to changes and learning’s on a project by changing the plan, priorities, and/or approach. Agilists believe changes are good! […]

July 19, 2007Agile Project Management, Events

Carnival of Agilists

This site has been included in the latest “Carnival of Agilists”, a bi-weekly collection of agile related posts, that introduces people to agile sites they may not be aware of and probably produces some Google page ranking uplift due to all the cross referencing. Anyhow, the collection is well worth checking out and I particularly enjoyed the overview of the new Certified Scrum Coach proposal posted by Pete Brehrens and the list of Top 10 Agile Development Web Sites posted by Kelly Waters. Kelly writes such snappy, engaging posts; I need to learn how to do that! Enjoy.

July 17, 2007October 3, 2026Agile Project Management, Events, Leadership, Lean

Developments in Agile Project Management – Part 3

Here’s the last instalment from my Developments in Agile Project Management Paper. Last time I wrote about Accreditation and Generation Y. Today I cover Leadership, Lean and Six Sigma, and Tool support. You can download the full paper with the additional intro to agile and post-agile sections at the end of this post.

July 11, 2007Agile Project Management, Events, Teams

Developments in Agile Project Management – Part 2

In my last post I outlined some thoughts for an upcoming PMI presentation. Today I’ll introduce the first two concepts: “Accreditation” and “Appeal to Generation Y”, then will cover the last three topics in a later post and attach the final paper with the “Why Agile?” introduction. As always I welcome feedback and suggestions for improvements. AccreditationWhere traditional project management has certifications like PMP and PRINCE2 Practitioner, agile methods are adopting more formal accreditation schemes also. Currently the agile methods: Scrum, DSDM, and FDD have accreditation schemes and recently there have been discussions about additional programs and multi-disciplinary (not just one agile method) accreditations. However, this is not without great debate and consternation, as for many people in the agile […]

July 8, 2007Agile Project Management, Events, Lean

Developments in Agile Project Management

Earlier this year I submitted a presentation proposal for the PMI Global Congress conference held in Atlanta this October. I called it "Developments in Agile Project Management" and wrote up a pretty seductive outline that got accepted. That is all well and good, but now the accompanying paper is due and I have to decide what to write about! I felt a little guilty submitting a proposal when I did not know what I was going to talk about, but in the agile spirit of delaying decisions to the `last-responsible-moment` it gave me the flexibility of including some late-breaking new discovery or trend that may have been missed by locking-in early. Plus, it is not as though I have nothing […]