This page contains the most recent articles from the Agile Project Management Academy.
I’ve participated in several discussions and presentations lately where the subject of Lean and Agile came up and I think the relationship of the two is very interesting. If you pursued each of those approaches to the extreme and tried maximize what you would get out of each independently, they would tend to pull you […]
Mixing Lean and Agile – Is Lean in Conflict with Agile? Read More »
There is a lot of confusion about the evolution of Agile Project Management. It’s very clear that we are on the verge of the “Next Generation of the Project Management” profession. Its not completely clear how it will evolve but there is a lot we can learn from similar evolution’s in other professions. The Project
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There is a lot of confusion and controversy about what an Agile Project Manager is. It’s understandable why this confusion exists: There are many stereotypes and misconceptions about both Agile and traditional plan-driven project management and The role of an Agile Project Manager might play is not well-defined Popular Stereotypes and Misconceptions There are some
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The role of an Agile Developer is not well-understood and many developers may have difficulty making this transition. In a traditional plan-driven environment (aka “Waterfall”), a developer might be able to sit in his/her cube with their headset on listening to some cool tunes. And, he/she could be fairly isolated from the rest of the
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I recently saw a discussion on an online forum where an individual raised the question of “What’s the Future of Agile?” Someone speculated that the next big methodology might be Lean I’ve also seen some people suggest that Kanban will become the next big methodology I don’t believe either of those things to be correct.
What’s the Future of Agile? Is There Something Else Coming Next? Read More »
I am very pleased to announce the opening of the Agile Project Management Academy! The Agile Project Management Academy is an online school that is dedicated to helping project managers, business managers, business analysts, and other students learn how to successfully integrate Agile and traditional plan-driven project management principles and practices in the right proportions
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I’ve gotten lots of questions from students in my Agile Project Management training along the lines of “What certification should I get?”. It’s understandable that there’s a lot of confusion about this because there is so much change going on in this area. As a result, it can be somewhat of a moving target to
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I often see a discussion about “What is the best methodology for a Project?” or “What methodology do you like the best?” I don’t think that’s an appropriate way to look at methodologies or frameworks at all. No methodology or framework is inherently “better” than all others and you shouldn’t pick a particular methodology just
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There is a lot of confusion and some fairly polarized opinions about scaling Agile and Scrum for large, complex projects involving multiple teams. There are a number of different competing approaches for doing this. Overview Scaling Agile projects to handle large, complex enterprise-level projects is a relatively new area that has a lot of confusion
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A student in one of my courses asked if I could help him develop a short and succinct way of “How Do You Go About Selling Agile? I think it’s an excellent topic and I told him I would write up something on that. Here it is… How Do You Go About Selling Agile? First,
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