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Agile2014 - Day 1

Zen Project Management

Yesterday was the first full day of Agile2014. In general it was a pretty good day. The original keynote speaker, Aneesh Chopra, apparently had to cancel. His replacement, Sam Guckenheimer, provided an overview of Microsoft's journey to agile. It was an ok case study with some interesting information, but it wasn't a motivational keynote to get us all charged up.

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Musings About #Agile #Retrospectives

quantmleap

L ike many things in life, Retrospective – as a concept – can have many layers of abstraction. At the superficial level it can be used to identify symptoms and find ways dealing with them. At a deeper level it can be used to highlight symptoms and attempt a rudimentary root-cause-analysis and possible experiments to address them. At a fundamental level it can be used to highlight symptoms, explore their causes and explore the attitudes and motivations that need changing in order to better addres

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3 Kinds of Data To Help Avoid Project Management Failure

Wrike

Our friends over at TechnologyAdvice spend a lot of time gathering the best tech advice for you to improve your work performance. This guest post from one of their writers, Christopher Herbert, tells you the three things you need to take your projects down the road to success. A project’s success or failure is judged by its adherence to the guidelines established when it began.

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10 (understated) Lessons from TPS!

Sudipta Lahiri

There is a lot of of literature on application of Lean and TPS to software industry. The Kanban Method takes the majority share of discussion around this. However, there are some key takeaways from Lean thinking that need to be understood/appreciate but haven’t got adequate focus in the software community. This article puts into perspective some of these learnings from TPS and what it means for us in the industry.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Agile2014 - Soft Skill Presentations

Zen Project Management

Three of my favorite presentations at Agile2014 were on soft skills; Diana Larsen’s Best Job Ever , Lyssa Adkin’s Facilitating Intense Conversations , and Jean Tabaka/Em Campbell-Pretty’s Creating Agile Tribes Diana Larsen was the keynote presenter on Wednesday. After a bit of dancing, she got to the presentation. She had three main points Do Work you Love to Do Work With Purpose Take Care of you Tribe The message was that we don’t have to do a job we hate.

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Using Wrike as an Event Planning Tool

Wrike

Wrike is a project planning software that combines reminders, collaboration, and task planning. Compared to traditional methods for managing events, Wrike can prove to be a much better solution. In this post, I will focus on how you can use Wrike to (1) manage all the cogs that keep an event running smoothly and (2) enable communication between your vendors and team members.

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The NextGen (Agile) “Tester”

Sudipta Lahiri

As Agile gets larger acceptance across the industry, the (manual) testing community has been concerned about how it will impact them. They hear about developers doing testing, test automation and hence wonder – what role am I going to be play? Is this going to kill my job? The concern is natural given a general perception that in Agile, developers should be doing testing.

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Tales of an Expert Witness: Sex, Lies, and Video (Part I)

Troubled and Failing Project

The subpoena shows up at the front desk and the call comes to you to pick it up. That nauseating feeling in your gut is the prelude to a long day… no… a long year. The lawyers want every contract and statement of work , each change order, log, email, document, physical mail, specification, test document, picture, drawing, scratch note, etc. that ever existed on your project.

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