Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Agile Project Management
Transmitting human experience through written material is not easy. As Rachel Davies did in “Agile Coaching“, Lyssa Adkins manages to do it brilliantly in this book that covers the same topic. Based on her own experience of “recovering command-and-control project manager”, she writes about all the circumstances where you can coach people, explaining both what you should and shouldn’t do.
Figure 3 deliberately shows an iteration running mid-week to mid-week. My experience, and the experience of others assisting teams, is that running iterations mid-week to mid-week is more effective than running them Monday to Friday.
Understanding the significance of team dynamics is essential in fostering an Agile environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and productivity. This article discusses the importance of team dynamics for Scrum teams.
I had already very much like the first book written by the same authors “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. The risk when you have high expectations is being disappointed. It wasn’t the case with “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development”.
After a first article about the negative sides of Agile certifications from the Agile practitioners’ perspective, Mark Haynes explores, again with a facetious bias, certifications in an organizational context.
Every Product Owner is different. Every Product Owner needs to work out what is right the right way for them to fill the Product Owner role. Every organization is different. Every team is different, and every individual is different.
The fact that ths book “Agile Project Management” by Jim Highsmith is already at his second edition after a first publication in 2004 says something about its value. In one of his definition of Agile, Jim Highsmith says, “Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability”.
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