Agile Project Management

• Agile Technique Guideline: Standup Meetings
• Agile Technique Guideline: Information Radiators
• Agile Technique Brief: Retrospectives
• Agile Technique Brief: Requirements Cards
• Agile Technique Brief: Estimating
• Agile Technique Brief: Agile Planning
• Agile Technique Brief: Project Value Models

• What makes a project 'Agile'?
• Agile Methodologies: Age-old Ideas in Fancy New Clothes
• What Does an Agile Project Plan Look Like?
• What Is Agile, Really?
• Presentation: Scaling Software Agility
• Paper: Legacy System Migration in an Agile Manner
• Paper: Building a Data Warehouse in an Agile Manner
• Paper: Agile: Overview and Core Methods
• Paper: Top 10 Agile Myths Debunked

• Checklist for Trying Out Agile on a Project
• Selecting Appropriate Agile Methods
• What does an Agile WBS look like?
• WBS Example: Agile Project Plan

• Agile Method Brief – Crystal
• Agile Method Brief – FDD
• Agile Method Brief – Scrum
• Agile Method Brief – Extreme Programming

Are we Agile? - I do a lot of teaching about Agile Software Development and the one question I receive time and time again is "How do I know when I'm Agile?"…


I'm So Smart: An Agile Antipattern - It never ceases to amaze me that, while I've been "Agile" for so many years now, I still find myself occasionally falling back to old habits. What bad habit?…


Lessons in Setting a Project Schedule - Deadlines! They can be like quicksand. The harder we fight to meet deadlines, the more of them we seem to miss…


Limit WIP to Identify Roadblocks - In a previous post I pointed out how limiting WIP helps to improve QA utilization. In this post, I'll discuss another area where limiting WIP can make your team more effective: Roadblock indentification…


Project Management Survival Tools - Part C (Planning Iterations) - For this 3rd post on this subject, I'd like to focus on the value of iteration planning / iterative development. One of the most difficult parts of project planning is breaking the project up into appropriate-sized pieces or phases so that the team does both the right things and does things right.

Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Transformation, Pixton, Nickolaisen, Little, McDonald, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321572882
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Integrating Agile Development in the Real World, Peter Schuh, Charles River Media, ISBN 1584503645
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Jim Highsmith, Addison-Wesley Professional , 2004, ISBN 0-321-21977-5
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Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall PTR, 2005, ISBN 0131479415
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Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams, Alistair Cockburn, 2004, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-69947-8
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