Month: February 2009

Agile Project Management, Events, Teams

Reinvigorate Your Retrospectives

Come and see Jennitta Andrea present on how to reinvigorate your retrospectives at the Calgary APLN meeting this Friday 27 February. From the outline:“You know you should be performing regular retrospectives, but you can't convince management or the team that it's a worthwhile investment of time … Your team has been performing retrospectives every iteration, and they have become monotonous and have stopped producing valuable insights … You've heard about retrospectives, but don't even know how to get started …” Jennitta is a thought leader in the agile community and serves on the board of the Agile Alliance. I am sure the talk will promote many ideas to make retrospectives extra productive. To register for this free event visit the […]

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Agile Project Management, Events, Leadership, Teams

Agile Organizations

The week before last I was in Regina teaching a two day Agile Project Leadership course for the Regina .NET User Group. One of the side conversations we had there was about Agile Organizations. Companies who not only embrace agile principles on their projects, but also within the behaviour and execution of their entire business. There is a big difference between running projects in an agile way within a traditional organization and orienting an entire company around principles that match agile values. Here are four well known and some not so well known examples: 1) ToyotaToyota’s lean approach is well publicized. Through their passion for worker-led continual improvement they review, learn, adapt and improve at an impressive pace. Much has been […]

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