Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs
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Knowledge
Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Agile Project Management
Adaptive Project Framework by Robert K. Wysocki
This book is a little bit different in the project management category. Its goal is to present an open framework and not a prescriptive model. Many project managers prefer to apply existing recipes for their project, but if you are ready to step out of your comfort zone, you will find in this books many ingredients to create your own recipe to manage software development projects.
Story Point Estimation
In this blog post, Mike Treadway explains the technique of using story points for story estimation during agile planning sessions.
Using Lean-Thinking to Help Scrum Teams
Thinking about Lean as a combination of science, management and learning provides Scrum practitioners to start with including Lean and Kanban practices into their Scrum practices. Explicit policies, managing work-in-progress, and creating visibility have a direct, measurable impact on a team’s velocity.
Using “No” in Agile
In his blog post “New to agile? Remember how to say ‘No’”, Bob Hartmann reminds us that the “no” word should be used much more often at every level of the organization where agile is being embraced.
The Whole Team Approach in Practice
In this blog post, Lisa Crispin describes how a team at Energized Work put in practice the Agile principle of collaboration.
Managing Schedule Flaws Using Agile Methods
This article discusses several symptoms and causes of schedule flaws, presents metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and describes how Agile can address project management risks.