Month: August 2008

Agile Project Management, Events, Planning

PMI Agile SIG Getting Ready For Launch

The PMI Agile SIG is gathering speed. This Special Interest Group (SIG) is set to be launched later this year and is very timely. While currently the interaction between agile and traditional project management approaches in most organizations may be small. This intersection is set to expand. The agile community knows that interest and adoption of agile is on the increase. We need only look at the attendance figures for the major agile conferences over the past few years to see how usage and interest is on the increase.      Yet, at the same time the PMI is seeing dizzying growth too. Fueled by demands for tighter controls and better governance, along with a seeming insatiable demand for the PMP […]

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Team Size, Velocity and Specialization

(Well actually a bunch of hiking stories)  Do large teams bog-down, do delays propagate, is specialization harmful or desirable? In today's knowledge-worker environment we process intangible information rather than physical products, and so seeing the impact of good and bad team dynamics can be difficult. One of the main reasons I moved to Canada from London was to be in the mountains for hiking, mountain biking and skiing. While we can usually hike from May – October; the hiking season for the high peaks is short, just mid-July through early September and so recently I have been doing far more hiking than blogging, but it makes you think about velocity when you are trying to calculate if you will make […]

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