Prioritization of desired product functionality is often ad-hoc. Balancing the needs of all stakeholders is a challenge. A client recently shared a technique for gaining consensus on priorities and gave me permission to share it.
How to Make a Training Poster
I like to brighten up my training classes with wall posters. They typically reproduce slides in my presentation materials. In one class we had some audio-visual challenges and I actually used the posters as my slides . They serve as
Personal Report from Agile2011
I spent much of this week in Salt Lake City at Agile2011. This year’s theme was 10 Years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto. It was very cool to have many of the original signatories present. I have had
What are the Best Practices for Agile?
“What are the Best Practices for Agile?” If I had a dollar for every time I have been asked this question, I could buy a weekend on Maui. This industry term has taken on a “silver bullet” quality. In our
Fun at the Seattle Scrum Gathering 2011
I spent the week at the Seattle Scrum Gathering, starting with a day-long retreat for Certified Scrum Coaches and Trainers. I learned a lot this week and made a lot of notes about things to check out, new ideas, new
Where Does a Project Manager Fit in Scrum? part 2
In our last post, we described an exercise for discovering how traditional Project Management duties are shared by the 3 Scrum roles. We raised the question: Is there still enough left to justify a Project Manager? If not, what is