Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Hi All, Seems like there is a movement afoot to diminish the significance of having a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) title.  I ran across an article on www.AgileScout.com – Denounce your CSM - that is quite critical of the entire Agile Alliance and the Scrum Master Certification program.  Apparently there is a new kid on the [...]

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Hello All, As you might remember from my previous article, we were reviewing the lesson’s learned that are covered in Jim Dempsey’s Webinar presentation entitled “Agile Lessons Learned.”   His next webinar is currently scheduled for May 17th, 2011.  Click here to register for Jim’s Webinar on the ITMPI Website.  To see a full listing of [...]

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Hi All, ITMPI has released 2 new webinars that I thought you might find of value.  They are available for FREE until February 20th. Pete —————————————– Webinar # 1: Lean Project Management Speaker:  Nick Spanos Abstract: This webinar with Nick Spanos discusses how we can apply Lean concepts to project management to reduce costs while [...]

Agile Adoption Equals Mental Shift The adoption of Agile software development principles requires serious adjustments to the mental models we employ in approaching projects and understanding real business value.  Too often Agile adoption efforts begin with a focus on the mechanics of Agile (i.e., formation of a Scrum team, learning how to build a burn down [...]

Hello All, I hope that after one month into this New Year you are well underway with accomplishing all that you set out to achieve in 2011.  I am already noticing that the lethargy of last year has broken and businesses are starting to look at strategic projects.  If this characterizes your company, perhaps you [...]

Hello All, I had the opportunity recently to present to a group of current and future leaders in my home state of Delaware.  The topic of the discussion was Building Partnerships: An Evolving Leadership Imperative and was given to the Leadership Delaware organization class of 2010.  I thought I would share the discussion with my [...]

Hello All, I woke up on January 2nd and looked at myself in the mirror and was not happy with what I saw.  There was this 40 something (ok! late, late 40 something) guy looking back at me that was 20 pounds overweight, couldn’t see his entire belt buckle and couldn’t walk up a flight [...]

Hello All, I am happy to have a guest blogger this week, Mr. James Adams.  He has been gracious enough to provide a contribution to this body of work.  James Adams is a Senior technology professional with a wide variety of experience implementing lean intranet and internet applications.  James has experience with team management, coaching [...]