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 [...]
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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 [...]
Movements of a Hypnotic Nature at AgilePalooza in Redmond, WA
Discussed the basis for high performing teams and the principles of Scrum as a framework , empirical process control mechanism, and the values. We then ran “Movements of a Hynpotic Nature” that helps us understand emergent design, iterations (if you only touch it once, you are not iterating), teamwork and operating from high-level requirements. This [...]
Manage Up with AgileEVM
As teams start to use Agile methods for delivering software, it is common for the business to ask for a summary of progress. This is not always easy to do for Agile teams. Teams may have an Agile project management tool, hand-drawn burn up charts, task boards on the wall with other information radiators or [...]
SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night
Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]
