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Re: Life as an Agile Project: One big game of Risk: A Human’s Nature

JohnV — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:28:20 -0000

the Agile Manifesto is great no doubt, but like the Declaration of Independence (US) it led (or will lead) to other documents defining what it truly means to say "We the People"

That is analogy, but having more definition around what it means to be AGILE isn't necessarily bad, There are fundamental processes that are taught and shared between teams everyday, with the caveat that processes aren't always AGILE. I think if we train ourselves to always be adaptive and learning, we can follow "manuals" knowing they are just a guideline, but not the absolute solution to our ever changing project problems. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

JohnV — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:31:18 -0000

They are not co-located, but we have one customer with our dev lead in romania, and one customer/Subject Matter expert with our architect in California. I am in Boston with our Domain Expert. QA would be in Romania.

So the end to end solution is being developed in Romania, but designed in California.

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

JohnV — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:36 -0000

any ideas how to effectively use SCRUM/AGILE with teams in different locations? I am trying to adopt more AGILE methods, but having teams not co-located and in many time zones makes it very hard to effectively manage in an AGILE way.

Re: Scrum And Agile Practices With Jurgen Appelo

JohnV — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:39:13 -0000

Bas, any chance you can get an iphone app for project shrink? I'd love to watch these videos on my phone :)

Re: Alignment Of Individual And Organizational Objectives With Andrew Meyer

JohnV — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:16:45 -0000

Great Interview. Would like to see how that online community tool works in real time. Sounds like a form of social media, that can be used to obtain feedback on projects as they progress. The one question I have is how much truth will that forum hold? Is it a lot of noise, or do executives use to obtain project status, bypassing the PMs? I Would hate to go into a meeting and bring a detailed project status report, and have an executive say "well I read in the community forum this Deliverable A can be completed in 2 weeks, why are you targeting 4 weeks?" I guess my one concern would be the controlled amount of information that would be given up in using a social media-like forum. Not that we want to keep things from our sponsors, or stakeholders, but we've all been on projects that had information "leaked" too soon, and it turned into a major problem.

Re: Successful Virtual Teams With Jessica Lipnack

JohnV — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:28:27 -0000

Great Topics. Would love to see experts thoughts on becoming a 21st century project manager, and continuing to be relevant in an age of AGILE, Self Organizing, and SCRUM based Project Management. All of those disciplines seem to want eliminate the influence of traditional PM skills that we are taught by the PMI institute.