Agile
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People Are Not Resources
My manager reviewed the org chart along with the budget. “I need to cut the budget. Which resources can we…
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Hiring Trap: I’ll Wait for the Best Person
A senior product manager had a great interview the other day. “I know the industry. I worked on the first…
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Nightmare on Agile Street
I’m awake. I’m lying in my bed. I’m sweating but I’m cold. Its the small hours of the morning and…
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Agile Outsourcing is Like Marriage – A 5-Step Agile Outsourcing How-To
There’s a lot of horror stories in offshore outsourcing of software development, but every once in a while you hear…
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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Strategy with the Vision Board
Summary This post does what its title says: It shares my recommendations for creating an agile product strategy using the…
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How Pairing & Swarming Work & Why They Will Improve Your Products
If you’ve been paying attention to agile at all, you’ve heard these terms: pairing and swarming. But what do they…
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User Stories are Rarely Appropriate
All tools are useful when used appropriately, and User Stories are no different. User stories are fantastic when used in…
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Agile Myth #2: “Agile is About Project Management”
This is my third post on a multi-part series entitled, “Agile Myths and Misconceptions”. It’s based on the talk I gave…
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Agile Myth #1: “Agile is a Methodology”
First of all, if you look up the word “methodology” in the dictionary, it says, “study of methods”. When people…
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