by arin | Mar 16, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
Tonight at the AgileCville user group meeting, we discussed Scrum in Schools. This was a roundtable discussion of group members, and it was very interesting. Paul Erb kicked off the discussion for us. Paul is an Agile Cville regular, as well as the business manager...
by arin | Feb 22, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
About a month ago I was working with a team planning another iteration for the project, when we had an interesting discussion about how to manage our burndown. On all of our previous sprints, our burndowns were based on hours. That is, for each day of the sprint,...
by arin | Feb 1, 2011 | Agile
I had coffee with a fellow software consultant friend recently where we traded war stories about recent IT projects. Jay told a tale familiar to many of us (Jay is not his real name, but the story is all too real). He and his team had just recently finished a project...
by arin | Jan 28, 2011 | Agile
I’m pleased to announce an online course that I have put together for how to lead and plan fixed price Agile projects and still be profitable. I first announced this in a webinar I held recently, and I’m excited to open it up to a wider audience now. You...
by arin | Jan 11, 2011 | Agile
I’ve heard other Agile Coaches say that leading a team through any change is as much about coaching them on their personal interactions as it is training them on the mechanics of Agile methodologies. I was reminded of that insight when I recently read a Wall...
by arin | Jan 4, 2011 | Agile
That Sinking Feeling When a project starts to go wrong, you know it well before you admit it to yourself or your customer. You know that feeling when you start to realize you don’t have enough budget, time, or the scope is unachievable? Long after we first get...
