Project Management

What does a good project manager need to do to become a great  Scrum Master?

Most individuals know that multitasking slows us down. It has an equally negative effect on agile …

Being paid to do a job doesn’t make someone a professional. This post explains the crucial …

For at least 15 years, I’ve heard people say that projects are dead. Projects and project-based …

You may have heard Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. With more than …

In this session we will shatter the myth that agile teams can't plan. We'll start by looking at the …

One of the biggest problems with having a sprint zero is that it establishes a precedent that there …

Unfortunately, in many companies, we see an inconsistency between project governance and project management.

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 …

Story points on an agile product backlog represent the effort to implement the backlog item.

While the Scrum Alliance and PMI are competitors in some ways, they each serve a common audience, …

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

As a project management framework, Scrum introduces many changes. One of the biggest is the role of …

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

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 …

Setting and managing expectations is perhaps even more important at the start of a major shift such …

The most effective type of community of practice within Scrum organizations seems to be one that …

The effort of adopting Scrum is best managed using Scrum itself.

The ideal pilot project sits at the confluence of project size, project duration, project …

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

Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team.

We've already overloaded the word backlog with product backlog and sprint backlog. Why confuse …

Some teams may respond to the pressure for their abstract measure of velocity to increase by …

Treemaps are an excellent way of visualizing large product backlogs.

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

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to …

The selection of a new Scrum team’s ScrumMaster can impact the success or failure of the team's …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …

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 …

This is the book I’ve been wanted for years. Until this book, the Scrum development process was not …