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Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart

It is possible for risk management and agile project management to coexist on projects that need to explicitly do so.

Yankees to Send Some Players Offshore

Stealing a page from the software development industry, the World Champion New York Yankees have decided to send of their players offshore.

Agile Product Management with Scrum

As a project management framework, Scrum introduces many changes. One of the biggest is the role of the…

Book Review

Distributed Teams: Build Trust through Early Progress

Teams with subgroups formed around compatible skills, attitudes and approaches to work are less likely to lead to a later breakdown in trust.

Mountain Goat Software Becomes a PMI Registered Education Provider

We're proud to announce that Mountain Goat Software has become a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP).

Separate Estimating from Committing

Remember the difference between an estimate and a commitment and keep the two activities separate, educating management and customers as necessary.

Removing Team Members

People often ask me whether teams should have the right to vote members off. To help answer that question, let me share a story with you.

Mountain Goat Client Double Fine uses Scrum on Brutal Legend

Mountain Goat Software client Double Fine Productions used Scrum while developing the popular game Brutal…

Build Trust Between Teams with Ambassadors

I’ve found that the personal relationships established by ambassadors can be extremely valuable even long after the ambassador returns to native soil.

Synchronize Rather Than Overlap Sprints

The biggest flaw in overlapping iterations is that there is never a time (except the end of the project) when all teams are done.

The Art of Compromise

The concepts of agility and project governance are not fundamentally opposed. Each is an attempt to improve the finished product. Scrum strives to do this through close collaboration and the short…

Reduce Manual Test Technical Debt

The first priority of a team with technical debt is to stop the bleeding, stop things from getting worse.

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