Agile Project Management

Have you heard the rumor that agile is dead, and Scrum along with it? Join me as I ponder the truth …

We can learn so much from books and movies! Enjoy these 9 takeaways about working on agile teams …

One of the challenges of agile development is coming to grips with the role of leaders and managers …

Agile approaches to software development promise many advantages: shorter schedules, more …

Resampling is based on the idea that things we’ll observe in the future will be similar to the …

Ten years from now I hope we’ve stopped calling it agile. I hope we’ve stopped calling it anything …

A project management office (PMO) that is engaged in and supportive of transitioning to Scrum can …

It would be nearly impossible to remove all dependencies between product backlog items and so our …

This agile estimation blog post from Mike Cohn looks at story points. Learn why user story points …

Laurie Williams, a professor at North Carolina State University, recently conducted a survey to …

I’ve got a new tool to announce today—Project Success Sliders.

It is possible for risk management and agile project management to coexist on projects that need to …

Teams with subgroups formed around compatible skills, attitudes and approaches to work are less …

People often ask me whether teams should have the right to vote members off. To help answer that …

There is more to leading a self-organizing team than buying pizza and getting out of the way.

With a little experience, most teams are able to see how to overlap some types of work and create …

Scrum teams learn to work by doing a little of everything all the time.

I’ve found that the personal relationships established by ambassadors can be extremely valuable …

The biggest flaw in overlapping iterations is that there is never a time (except the end of the …

Moving away from component teams is a difficult but necessary step for those who want to adopt an …

A big part of an organization’s becoming agile is finding the appropriate balance between …

The One-Handed Clock is a useful visual metaphor that can be hung in a team room.

This excellent book is targeted directly at Project Management Professionals (PMPs) but will be …

This is a very practical yet thought–provoking book. The book brings in a lot of thinking from …

This excellent book dramatically advances the start–of–the–art in agile project management. It goes …

This book is the only book of its kind. It covers everything you need to know to make intelligent …

This is a wonderful and highly practical book. Within hours of putting it down I was already …

Agile Project Management with Scrum is a wonderful book. The author, Ken Schwaber (one of the …

This book starts by describing how Taylor’s Scientific Management has lead us down the incorrect …

Ken Schwaber and I co-wrote this article to help counter the misperception that agile projects do …

How can you not like a book whose first section is called “The most important factor in software …