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.

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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