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Agile Infrastructure Transformation and TBM

Leading Agile

Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. My experience is that in a TBM implementation that is driven by a CTO or even a CIO in a defense mode (“Why are your costs so high?”) Over time it became used for only the executives in the company.

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download. You want to know the state of agility in your organization? It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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9 Best Practices for Recruiting Developers With Skills Tests

Teamweek

When hiring developers, you need to be on the lookout for a combination of hard, technical , and soft skills that will add value to your company. That’s where the skills-first hiring process comes in. Hiring developers gets easier when you modernize your recruitment process.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Agile Unplugged is your chance to explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation, out in the field. So, I had never, I’d like heard of Agile, but like, I had no experience with Agile.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

I know that being an Agile project manager at nTask sounds like a bit of cliché’, but at the same time, I cannot help but think otherwise. Coming back to JIRA there is a fictional case study that I based on my own analysis. Since most of you know that I have been inducted at nTask as an Agile project manager.

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The Best Decision-Making Frameworks for Project Managers: RACI Charts, S.P.A.D.E, BCM, and More!

Planio

Therefore, they’re best suited to larger projects with lots of moving parts, stakeholders , and teams. If you’re an Agile team especially, a RACI chart might seem like overkill (as the roles are pretty much implicit. However, adding one to your long-term Agile planning efforts can help reduce confusion.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. The Effectiveness of Risk Management: An Analysis of Project Risk Planning Across Industries and Countries,” Ofer Zwikael and Mark Ahn, Risk Analysis , Vol.