Chuck Cobb

Chuck is the author of the recent, best-selling book "The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile" as well as four other books on Agile Project Management and Business Excellence. He is the founder of the Agile Project Management Academy and he is a very popular instructor with over 80,000 students in 174 countries worldwide with almost 5,000 5-star reviews. His Agile Project Management curriculum is supported on three different training platforms: Udemy (Including Udemy for Business) Pluralsight and The Agile Project Management Academy And, several large major corporations have standardized on his training for all of their project managers. In addition, He has also been a featured speaker at a number of PMI Chapter events, agile groups, universities, and PMO workshops throughout the US as well as internationally. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Boston University and many of his courses originated from a graduate-level Agile Project Management curriculum he originally developed for Boston University. He has a very pragmatic, "real world" approach to Agile that is based on over 20 years of hands-on program/project management experience in a broad range of industries and application areas and he is passionate about helping project managers, business managers, and companies understand the convergence of Agile and traditional project management principles and practices.

People, Process, and Tools in an Agile Project – How to Fix a Broken Project

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Enterprise-level Agile Project Management

The inter-relationship of people, process, and tools in an Agile project is important to understand. It is particularly important when you try to fix a broken project. Typical Traditional Project Management Approach On several occasions, I’ve been brought in to rescue a project that was in trouble. In many cases, there is an expectation that, […]

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What Are Self-Organizing Teams?

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What Are Self-organizing Teams?

Agile is very much built around the idea of self-organizing teams. But what are self-organizing teams? There is some confusion about that topic. Some teams have taken that to mean complete flexibility to do whatever they want without any management or leadership. That amounts to “anarchy” and there is a big difference between “anarchy” and

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Functional Decomposition – How Does It Apply to Agile? Why Is It Important?

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Enterprise-level Product Backlog

What is Agile functional decomposition? (and why is it important?) Investopedia defines “functional decomposition” as follows: “A method of business analysis that dissects a complex business process to show its individual elements. Functional decomposition facilitates the understanding and management of large and/or complex processes and can be used to help solve problems: Basically, functional decomposition

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The Importance of Agile Project Governance

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Agile Project Governance

Is Agile Project Governance an Oxymoron? Do the words “Agile Project Governance” sound like they go together? On first glance, your answer might be “No”. The idea of superimposing a Project Governance Model on an Agile project sounds like mixing oil and vinegar However, I don’t believe that is necessarily the case especially when you

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What is an Agile Business Analyst? What Training Is Needed?

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What is an Agile Business Analyst?

Many software development projects are moving rapidly to an Agile development approach: That has dramatically impacted the role of a project manager in an Agile environment Agile also has a significant impact on the role of a Business Analyst In this article, we will explore “What is an Agile Business Analyst?”, “How is the role

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Agile and Corporate Culture – How Do You Make it Work?

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Enterprise-level Product Backlog

Agile and Corporate Culture It’s important to understand the relationship of Agile and corporate culture. Adapting an Agile development process to a corporate culture can be a very difficult thing to do. Especially if it involves changing a well-established corporate culture If you ignore this problem and implement an Agile development process without attempting to

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What’s the Right Level of Detail in an Agile User Story?

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What's the Right Level of Detail in an Agile User Story

Questions frequently come up about “What’s the Right Level of Detail to Put in an Agile User Story?” – I want to share some thoughts with you on that subject. There is no absolute right/wrong answer about how much detail a story should contain – the best answer is “it depends”. Level of Detail in

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Agile Cross-Functional Teams – Lessons Learned from Sports

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Agile Team Performance

There are a lot of misconceptions about Agile cross-functional teams. Here are a few examples: Is Agile Really a Team of Peers? Is Specialization Inconsistent with Agile Teamwork? Is Individual Accountability Inconsistent with Agile? We can learn a lot from team sports that can be applied to Agile team performance to overcome these misconceptions. Misconceptions

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