Month: May 2008

I recently returned from the Agile Alliance Board meeting in Boston. Three times a year we meet as the board to review progress, plan Agile Alliance programs, conferences and member services. This latest meeting was my favourite. Not only did we get lots done in the two day period, but the process (mainly open space) worked really well and rather than committee work being frustratingly slow, it progressed well, and I came away energized by the whole experience!We had many good discussions including: Conference 2009 Update – Next year’s agile conference will most likely by in Chicago, at the Hyatt downtown hotel. Options are being kept open and the venue would work well with between 1200-2400 attendees.   <Todd Little […]

At the next Calgary APLN meeting I will be discussing how the PMI framework maps onto Agile best practices. Yikes, what brought me to this! Well, back in October at the Calgary APLN planning meeting we asked attendees what they would like to hear about this year. People made suggestions and voted on the topics, the top 5 were: 1) Using Agile on distributed teams2) Team collaboration / motivation / accountability3) How to decompose large programs into agile projects4) Mapping the PMI Framework to Agile best practices5) Fitting agile into the constraints imposed by the business The first two have been covered; last November Jane Robarts spoke about her first hand experience of managing distributed agile teams and in February […]