I recently facilitated What makes agile projects succeed (or Fail)? for the BayAPLN, the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. There were 63 participants, even more than at the Chicago Scum Gathering. Using the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink technique, the group generated, discussed, and ranked 65 ideas. We managed to do all of this in less than 90 minutes!
This Tuesday evening I’ll be facilitating What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? at the BayAPLN meeting. This is the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. The event is free and open to the public, but you must RSVP.
Cheers,
Have you struggled to convince the ‘powers that be’ that your organization should make the move to agile? While the benefits seem obvious to ‘us’, it often seems like ‘they’ just don’t get it. Are our business leaders stupid? Usually, the answer is no. They simply have a different perspective, language, and set of values.
Greetings from the 2008 Chicago Scrum Gathering! On Monday I led two sessions: Agile 101, and What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? I also led a session on agile estimation in the open space portion of the conference.
Almost 50 people gathered to consider the question: What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? In under an hour and a half, we generated and ranked about 50 ideas. Here, in order, are the things that this group felt had the biggest impact on the success of the agile projects that they have been involved with. You can compare this list with generated by previous groups here, here, and here.
Greetings from the 2008 Scum Gathering!
At 9:00 AM this morning I was surprised to see about 25 more-or-less bright shinny faces in the room for Agile 101. I was even more surprised as people continued to trickle in until the room, setup for 50, was at capacity. Wow!
Many thanks to all who came out and participated.
Cheers,
Last Saturday, I led two sessions at P-Camp. The first was “Agile 101”, and you can read about how that went here. The second session was “Why do Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?” In this session, the participants shared over 20 practices that they felt were key to the success of their past agile projects. Here we are discussing an idea.
I spent yesterday at p-camp, an unconference for agile product managers. The event was hosted at Yahoo! and put on by the folks at Enthiosys. I led two sessions: Agile 101, and Why do Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? This post is about the Agile 101 session. Watch for future posts about my other session, and some more pictures.
I’m very enthusiastic about agile software development. I have a special place in my heart for eXtreme Programming (XP), which was where I started with agile. That said, I don’t have anything on these guys.
Mike Cohn has a great article in the Agile Journal in which he describes ‘patterns’ of agile adoption. The basic premise is that there are 3 choices that an organization needs to make about their agile rollout:
Karl Scotland has an interesting post over on the Agile Practitioners Forum. He describes how and why his team moved to a Kanban system.