Scrum Agile Project Management

Videos on Scrum and Agile Project Management

Implementation of Agile & Scrum at a Government Agency

March 20, 2014 0

Like many IT organizations in state government agencies, this New York State Government Agency primarily used Waterfall. I implemented the agency’s first agile projects. I was challenged by the agency’s unique environment, learned lessons, discovered systemic problems, overcame organizational obstacles and changed misconceptions. I will discuss what I’ve learned during this award-winning project and make recommendations for others in bureaucratic companies and government agencies. The agency’s projects are moving to agile/scrum and the institution’s IT group is incorporating agile into its PM and SDLC methodologies.

Why Developers Don’t Test

March 13, 2014 0

How often did you meet a situation when everybody knows about an issue, at retrospective everybody agrees that it should be resolved, but next retrospective brings the same issue and the same action items? Why team of mature developers cannot change a situation on a project, cannot apply new practices or fail to apply innovations? Let me explain it on real project example and get you to the root cause, go from best practices to basic principles and back.

Stop Doing Retrospectives

February 27, 2014 0

You have been doing Agile and Scrum for a few years now. With a regular cadence you have retrospectives and a lot of problems and great improvement opportunities are raised but nothing seems to really improve. Stop doing retrospectives!

Evolution of Retrospectives

February 13, 2014 0

There are a lot of teams out there who started their transition to agile/lean quite a while ago. Most of them did some great steps in the right direction. But after the first view month, after all of the low hanging fruits were harvested, most of the teams struggle with establishing a valuable and sustaining kaizen culture of continuous improvement using retrospectives.

Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development

February 6, 2014 0

Tired of the claims that Scrum, XP, and kanban don’t scale beyond a few teams? Overwhelmed by management’s resistance to the organizational changes needed to really follow agile principles? Concerned with the lack of proven practices required to scale agile methods to the next level? Exploring the Scaled Agile Framework™, Dean Leffingwell dispels these claims and answers these questions—and more.

Agile Communication

January 27, 2014 0

This highly-interactive talk shows typical communication patterns and behaviors in Agile teams. It also provides eye-opening insights into the ways communication can be improved in Scrum. It features some practical games that include the whole audience.

Use Technical Debt to Your Advantage

January 16, 2014 0

What do home ownership and leveraged buyouts can teach us about how to use technical debt to our advantage in Scrum? How can we sleep soundly at night when we have accumulated mountains and mountains of technical debt? When is good enough good enough and when are we just deceiving ourselves?

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