5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings
Five clever exercises to help take the boredom out of your Agile team daily standups. Ring the changes and try out some of these!
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Agile Teams: Roles & Structures That Work
Learn what makes up an Agile team and the roles you’ll find within it, along with the team structures to use to set up your agile team for success.
Understanding Agile
Agile Projects is an alternative to traditional project management. This guest article by Isidora Roskic explains how agile projects are different and how to make the switch.
The Benefits of Agile Approach to Meetings
Take a page from Agile and have better, more efficient meetings with your team, even virtual ones. You can learn how to here.
Comparing Agile Methods: Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban? Me too. So I set out to find out what the differences were and this article is the result. All your questions about the different Agile methods answered (well, most of them).
Best Agile Books for Project Managers
Here are my recommendations for the best agile books for project managers. Learn more about agile if you are looking to learn more or transitioning your organisation.
Are Project Managers The Dodo of The Agile Age?
How does a project manager – especially one trained and skilled in waterfall delivery techniques – stay relevant in a fast paced world? This article shares tips on how to keep up-to-date, and what agile (with a small ‘a’) means to project managers who want to bridge the gap between process and successful delivery.
Why Agile Works for Today’s Projects
Agile is the perfect approach to use on many projects. Learn why Agile is here to stay and what is holding companies back from embracing this way of working. This is a guest article by expert Patrick Mayfield.
How being customer-centric improves IT and project success
The video of me at Øredev speaking about how customer centricity improves success is available online on the conference website. It’s a presentation about the case study in the book I co-wrote with Phil Peplow last year, Customer Centric Project Management, but it also includes an updated project case study and some material that didn’t…
Agile and Distributed Teams: research results
I worked with ProjectsAtWork in 2012 to research and analyse good practices for making Agile successful with distributed teams. Agile isn’t the first approach you would think of to manage a project with team members spread all over the world, but actually it is a really common approach. Why people use Agile with a distributed…
The 8 dangers of implementing Agile
As if adopting Agile wasn’t scary enough, Keith Richards from KRC talked about the 8 dangers of Agile at the APM conference last month. And here they are: It arrives bottom up “We don’t really want the techies taking over the organisation,” said Keith. “This bottom up stuff is a bit dangerous.” He made the…