Month: February 2011

Agile Project Management, Events, PMI-ACP

PMI Unveils Agile Certification Program

The PMI took the wraps off their new PMI Agile Certification program today. If that sounds like an oxymoron then take a closer look. There have been a growing number of agile sessions at PMI conferences over the last 6 years and an entire agile track at the last PMI Global Congress. The PMI reports that 65% of its members are involved in IT projects and Gartner are predicting agile will be used by 80% of software projects by 2012, so the demand is huge. My PMI SeminarsWorld course is popular not because anyone wants to see me, but instead the demand is high for information on how to run agile projects within PMI based organizations. I have been working […]

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Agile Project Management, Estimating, Events, Leadership, Lean, Metrics, Planning, Risk Management, Teams, Travel

Training in New Orleans – Updated: Now Full

The next occurrence of my Agile Project Management class will be in New Orleans on February 28 and March 1st (Feb 18 Update: and is now full ). After that there is: Savannah, GA – April 11, 12Dallas, TX  – October 26, 27Anaheim, CA – November 7,8 I enjoy delivering these courses and people enjoy attending them too, here are some feedback comments: "Mike delivers an exceptionally well reasoned and effective presentation of agile. Thoroughly appreciated" – Bill Palace, El Sugund, CA“The best PMI class I have ever taken.” – Scott Hall, Marriot International"This was a very well executed course. Instructor (Mike Griffiths) was very engaging!" – Ameila White, Boeing"The instructor was very knowledgeable, class well organized, content at the […]

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Agile Project Management, Events, Games

Agile Mythbusters Update

So we had our Agile Mythbusters session and it went really well. I was a little concerned that we would present a myth to the audience and there would be no discussion, debate or dialogue, just crickets chirping and tumbleweed rolling through. However, as normal, people were great and we had some good explanation and analysis of the myths. After a warm up round debating the likelihood of the Calgary Flames making the playoffs (currently theoretically “Plausible”) we got started with “You cannot accurately estimate agile projects”. There was a good discussion about how we estimate agile projects and how in fact the feedback from iterations provides concrete evidence for better estimating. Yet the larger issues with accurately estimating something […]

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