On November 1st at 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT) for about 45- to 60-minutes, Gil Broza will have me on as an interview guest on his series “Spot On Business” talking about “Agility for the Long Haul”. You may sign up at http://3pvantage.com/csterling/saveMySeat.php?ver=SC to be part of the conversation. Here is a brief description of the [...]
Archives for Executive Scrum
Example Facilitation of Agile Adoption Strategy Session
More than a year ago I was training and consulting with a company that was deciding how to adopt Agile software development methods across all of their teams in the organization after some successful pilots. After a 2-day private Scrum course we decided to use the 3rd day to run a workshop on how to [...]
Implementing Agile in the Shark tank
An ex-colleague of mine, Santosh Kolhatkar, wrote up the following points about introducing an Agile approach inside a large enterprise with an existing traditional SDLC process. What he points out in his writeup regarding a foundation for introducing an Agile approach when there is a heavy focus put onto SDLC compliance and governance is in [...]
Impediment Management and the Agile Triangle
The Agile Triangle, a concept that was discussed by Jim Highsmith in his book Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, describes how teams and organizations can go beyond the traditional Iron Triangle in defining project success criteria. In the Agile Triangle, the traditional project constraints of schedule, cost, and scope are confined to one point [...]
Organizational Impediment Management: Early Risk Detection for Agile
One of the many benefits of Scrum is early identification of roadblocks that could stop a Team from meeting their goals and commitments. At the Daily Scrum meeting, team members typically answer 3 questions: What have you worked on since we last met? What will you be working on until we meet again? What impediments [...]
New Release: AgileEVM has Portfolio Sharing
We are excited to present this significant new release of AgileEVM (http://www.agileevm.com)! You can now share your portfolios with as many people as you like at no extra charge. Our unique value-based pricing on active releases helps you promote transparency because you can share information with as many people as desired. You have the ability [...]
AgileEVM Overview Shows the connections between releases and portfolios
AgileEVM (http://www.agileevm.com) is a powerful way to view performance of your portfolio. The portfolio focuses on releases because this is the only unit of work where cost and benefits can really be compared. Using outcomes from each iteration, rich information is provided. Take a look! AgileEVM.com Overview @ Yahoo! Video
