Once upon a time.. I was very naive to think I could spend a few days or weeks to write a book: “Going Agile Project Management Practices”. I just wanted to document some of my experience about project management specifically being agile. Well, in the end the book project took six months and involved about… Continue reading 2013…What a year! maxmetrics successes and challenges
At the PMI Global Congress in New Orleans, I will present 10 to 12 techniques and practices that can be used to avoid or minimize the common challenges and problems faced in agile projects.
In the book “Going Agile Project Management Practices”, I describe the use of a color-coded probability and impact matrix for classifying risks. (Figure 1) Visualizing the probability, impact, and severity of risks is a great tool for engaging project team members in risk management. Figure 1 Example Risk Matrix as Excel Bubble Chart
The agile manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) suggests that working software should be delivered in short delivery cycles. To realize this, one of the practices that teams need is test automation.
On 19-June-2013 at 14:45, I will give a presentation on 25 techniques, guidelines, and skills useful for agile Business Intelligence at the TDWI European Conference. The topics for the presentation are outlined in Figure 1
Marketing is one of the departments whose effective use of business intelligence and analytics can have a direct impact on the organization’s top line revenue, a tier one-performance measure.
When I price a project, the last thing I want to do is inform the customer that we need additional money to deliver the same scope. It somehow defies logic to pay additional money before seeing any benefits from an initial investment. However, repeatedly this is what happens in information technology (IT) projects.
Issue 10 of Today’s Software Magazine has an article on “Going Agile” that provides an overview of the content of the book, excerpts related to cost management in agile projects, and do’s and don’ts on going agile. I will present the content of the article on on 04-April-2013 @ 19:30 .
Today, Federico Bellani released his research on the Adoption and Evolution of Agile Method Practices. The research is an extensive litature review supported by survey results from 194 worldwide participants and extensive survey analysis. Some of his findings on agile practices fall inline with the results from the VersionOne annual survey on the state of… Continue reading Federico Bellani on “Adoption and Evolution of Agile Practices Over Time”
At the “…even mammoths can be agile” conference…, I presented on using some of the practices described in Going agile Project Management Practices to help with the challenges and problems faced in agile projects.