Hello All and Happy Friday, It’s been a week of reflecting on Risk Management. Earlier in the week I posted an article summarizing some Expert Thoughts on Risk Management in Agile Projects and yesterday posted a youtube video discussing Proactive Risk Management. So today I received a tweet from @SusanneMadsen with a link to a [...]
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Article: Proactive Risk Management
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Risk Management, Software Development, project management0
Progressive Risk Management in Agile projects
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Business Partnerships, Risk Management, management, project management, scrumHi Everyone, I wrote an article yesterday that deals with Risk Management on an Agile software development project. I found this youtube video that I thought was interesting and highly relevant. In the video, the author explores Risk Management in an Agile project. It explains how to take advantage of Agile project characteristics, such as [...]
Expert Thoughts on Agile Risk Management and the Need for More Comprehensive Risk Management Programs
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Risk Management, Software Development, management, project management, scrumThere have been several articles written related to risk management. Three such articles have come from some of the leaders in Agile methods, and support to some degree, our views on applying risk management processes to the Agile world. Mike Cohn, from Mountain Goat Software wrote a blog article referencing a risk burn-down chart as [...]
The Peter DeYoe Daily
Posted: 10th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Application Support, Business Partnerships, digital marketplacePaperli.PaperFrame.Show({ id: 567290, width: 600, height: 480, background: ‘#ECECEC’, borderColor: ‘#DDDDDD’ })
All Hail the Scrum Master!
Posted: 23rd March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Methods, Leadership, scrumTags: Agile, Leadership, scrum
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Scrum master…the odd-sounding term conjures up images of someone doing something nefarious in a dark alley where you would not want to be at night (at least in an overactive imagination). But it’s really not. In an Agile team, a scrum master is a key leader, mover, and shaker. What do they do?
PMI is in the Agile Certification Game
Posted: 23rd March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, PMBOK v4, Project Management Institute (PMI), project managementTags: Agile Adoption, PMBOK v4, project management, Project Management Institute (PMI)
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On February 24, 2011, the Project Management Institute (PMI) unveiled their new Agile certification. The number of Agile sessions at PMI events has been growing over the last six years.
Reducing Risk and Avoiding Pain – Agile Lessons Learned (Part 3)
Posted: 22nd March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Software Development, scrumTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, scrum, Software Development
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Hello All, In the first two parts of this series, we discussed six of Jim Dempsey’s lessons learned in building an Agile software development program. You can review these in the previous blog posts: Reducing Risk and Avoiding Pain – Agile Lessons Learned (Part 1) Reducing Risk and Avoiding Pain – Agile Lessons Learned (Part [...]
Certifiable Scrum!
Posted: 21st March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, scrumTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, scrum
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As Agile becomes adopted in a wider variety of settings, there is a need to ensure that the resources you’ve selected really know what they’re doing in Agile, especially Scrum Masters. But does a certified scrum master (CSM) really bring value to the table?
Is Your Agile Workspace Crowded By Elephants?
Posted: 16th March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Leadership, Software Development, scrumTags: Agile
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Hi All, One of my colleagues, Mr. Nick Spanos (www.LeanITBlog.com) directed me to an article on CIO.com entitled Elephants in the Room – What Agile Practitioners Don’t talk about. After 10 years since the Agile Manifesto changed our way of thinking, we are now in a phase of “shaking out the bugs” so to speak [...]
How Do You Measure the Performance of an Agile Team?
Posted: 11th March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, IT MetricsTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods
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I’m thinking of it from the point of view of what you’re trying to improve. In this case, your[sic] measuring estimates and actuals to improve your overall planning and estimation processes. These activities are typically front-loaded actions and are often static…meaning they are completed once at the beginning of the project.
