Vigilance is vital to avoid velocity vices!
After daily coordination events (a.k.a. Scrums, standups or huddles), velocity might be the most misused tool by teams new to agile and the stakeholdeRead More…
Tag: agile project management
Does your Product Owner have a high OQ?
An article from Harvard Business Review reminded me that becoming an effective Product Owner (PO) requires a lot more than interpersonal skills, empowRead More…
“Organize Around Products/Services” is a great addition to the Disciplined Agile principles
The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around ProductsRead More…
Use the 7 Habits to create highly effective agile teams
When Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, it was used by individuals for self-improvement but thRead More…
Do your experiments fail even before they are run?
(Many thanks to Scott W. Ambler for his tweet which inspired this article: “The experiment failed successfully!“)
One of the many traits aRead More…
Lessons in testing from a pandemic
Ontario has the second highest number of cases of COVID-19 within Canada but it lags all other provinces in terms of testing when measured on a per caRead More…
COVID-19 and agile are strange bed fellows
COVID-19 is like that car accident just up ahead which you know you shouldn’t be focusing on while driving, but which draws the attention of allRead More…
Do not compromise on knowledge when filling the Product Owner role
The product owner role is extremely challenging for most organizations to fill. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expecteRead More…
Use uncertainty poker to increase alignment on delivery approaches
Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of coRead More…
Go slow (to go fast later)
The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transporRead More…