Combining Scrum Roles
In this short video, Angela Druckman answers the question “Is it ok to combine some of the Scrum roles?”The answer is “sometimes” but it is important to realize these combinations always have a cost.
Do It Right, Then Do the Right Thing
Several generations of managers have been taught to “Do the right thing, then do it right.” Right. It has a logic all of its own doesn’t it? What’s the use of being highly effective is you are highly effective at the wrong thing? But what if the obsession with doing …
Agile Project Management in TFS 2012
Learn how Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 can help you quickly plan, manage, and track work across your entire team. You’ll explore the new product backlog, sprint backlog, and task boards which can be used to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration.
Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams
How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you were ready to ship that it was not quite what they wanted? Have you received conflicting requirements from different customers while building a single solution for both?
Manage Risk and Expectations in Agile
Agile methodology is a means for a team to provide an end results based on limited requirements. Still the business stakeholders demand early feedback on the long term end-result, not only what is delivered in the next sprint. This presentation will show how the Scrum teams in Skandiabanken manages the …
Accelerating Agile
The fastest teams I’ve ever worked with have been agile. Not big-A, all-about-the-TDD, automate-everything, methodology-over-thinking Agile, but quietly-getting-on-with-business, delivering-the-goods, making-the-trade-offs agile.