Project Management
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Agile
Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics
Product planning is just as important in an agile context as it is in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product…
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Agile
Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick…
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Software Development
Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more…
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Software Development
Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a…
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Software Development
Nurturing Leadership
I had an email conversation with a colleague about when you let people fail versus when you rescue them—how you…
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Agile
Contracting in Agile – You try it
One of the key principles in Agile development is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation” Unfortunately, that means that if you’re…
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Agile
Client Reviews: From Waterfall to Agile
We are currently transforming a large organization with 200+ people to adopt new agile behaviors. The transformation started off with…
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Agile
Throughput Planning – Why Project Managers Should Like Lean and Agile
Project managers in IT have a tough job. I’ve been there myself, and I have also coached a large number…
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Agile
Looking For Leaders In All The Wrong Places
When I was a young developer, there was a re-org in the company. I found myself a team leader. That…
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