Month: May 2016

Agile Project Management, Leadership, Teams

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Bimodal IT

Is it just me, or does Bimodal IT sound like a mental health condition? Unfortunate name aside, it has been adopted by companies reluctant to embrace agile but looking for a halfway-house / best-of-both-worlds solution. In my last post I reviewed some of the issues I see with Bimodal IT; these include promoting a segregation of techniques when companies really need integration and recommending sequential lifecycles for complex projects. While it is easy to poke holes in ideas, it is more useful and rewarding to fix and improve things. So, let’s help organizations using Bimodal IT improve. First, we should acknowledge the elegance of its simple design and understand why organizations are drawn to it. The simplicity of an If-This-Then […]

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Agile Project Management, Events, Travel

Agile Coach Camp

I attended this event last year and enjoyed it… We would like to invite Agile Practitioners to Agile Coach Camp Canada – West, an Open Space Conference to be held in Vancouver, BC on the weekend of June 17-19, 2016. Agile Coach Camp – An Unconference The annual gathering at Agile Coach Camp creates opportunities for our Agile community to share our successes, our learning, our questions and our unresolved dilemmas – all in an energizing and supportive environment. The Open Space Technology, Unconference format, encourages participants to join the conversation. Each of us can make a contribution to the art and science of helping people and teams be their best as they deliver valuable software. Share your stories, observations, […]

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Agile Project Management, Books

PMBOK v6 Work

As you probably know the Exposure Draft of the PMBOK v6 Guide is making its way through review at the moment. I have been working with the PMI on some iterative, adaptive and agile content and look forward to when the non-disclosure agreements are lifted and I can tell you all about it. I think I can state, without saying too much, that people can expect to see a natural evolution of mainstreaming techniques that are now considered common practice. Looking through my web site visitor statistics it is clear that one of the popular resources is my PMBOK v4 Guide to Agile mappings. These were created many years ago to support a training course I used to run for […]

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Agile Project Management, Events

DSDM Video

I get the feeling that DSDM is considered by many people outside of the UK as the uncool, out-of-touch great-uncle of agile. While somewhat related to modern agile, it is kind of forgotten about or dismissed as outdated or not applicable. While some Not Invented Here (NIH) prejudice is natural, there is a cruel irony in DSDM first being criticized for being too large and bureaucratic to be truly agile because it includes architectural elements and program management guidance, then 20 years later SAFe, LeSS and DAD adding these elements for large enterprise suitability. Anyway, I was impressed by a short video produced by the DSDM Consortium. Despite helping create DSDM 22 years ago I still sometimes struggle explaining its […]

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Errata1

In the first, “Premier” edition of my PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book there was an error in the Emotional Intelligence figure. This was corrected in the second edition of the book and represented as shown below: Readers of the first edition are encouraged to refer to the figure above (or by the second edition:)

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