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How To Make Your Project Not Suck by Using an Agile Project Charter
An Agile Project Charter The Problem What the customer really needed (Click on image for full size view) Any project can fail, and any project can fail for a seemingly endless array of reasons. Large...
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How to Easily Prioritize Your Agile Stories
What Comes First? Index cards for Saturday morning chores (alandd from flickr) You’ve spoken to all of your stakeholders, maybe had a workshop or two, gathered all of the input, defined requirements...
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Five Simple Steps to Agile Risk Management
Risk Factory (flickr: kyz) This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. (Winston Churchill) Background In my post on Agile Project Charters I outlined the...
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Agile Program Risk Management
Managing Risk Across Multiple Agile Projects (From flickr: gagilas) All human endeavours involve Risk. Software development projects as evidenced by their high failure rates are certainly no exception....
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Agile Coach Camp Canada 2010
An Open Space Conference for Agile Coaches Adding Topics To The Grid (click on image to enlarge) Background On June 11th and 12th I was fortunate to be able to attend Agile Coach Camp Canada 2010 in...
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Estimating Effort For Your Agile Stories
Determining the Effort required to complete an Agile Story Wrong Way – Go Back (flickr – naz’s stuff) The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to...
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Estimate Story Size by Playing Agile Planning Poker
Developing Accurate Effort Estimates By Playing Games Counting (flickr - marina moia) Background The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can...
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Calculating the Velocity of Your Agile Projects
A Simple Way to Calculate the Velocity of Your Agile Teams and Projects Speed (flickr - Sean Tubridy) Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase...
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Estimate How Long It Will Take To Complete Your Agile Project
Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? (Flickr - Lorant Zsabo) Are we there yet? – Donkey from Shrek 2 If you are a parent with kids any older than three or four years of age you’ve heard it: “Are we...
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Occam’s Razor and the Art of Software Design
The Simplest Solution is Almost Always The Best Solution Art Gallery of Ontario Staircase (Flickr - paccpass) “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein Who...
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