…heard some people say, “Agile teams don’t plan.” Nothing could be further from the truth. These sessions, including one presented to the teams at Google, blow that myth out of the water! These presentations, by leading agile speaker and author Mike Cohn, explain how agile teams plan. Learn why story…

You’ve likely heard of agile development processes like Scrum and XP. You might have even begun to implement them at the team level in your organization. What you are beginning to realize, however, is while starting an agile transition is easy, scaling agile practices across an organization is much harder.…

You believe an agile software development method might be the right answer for your team or business, but you aren’t sure how to begin. You’ve heard transitioning to an agile process from a traditional process is fraught with potential dangers but know teams that do it well succeed by taking…

…who is interested in agile development. After three short chapters that introduce the general principles and activities of an agile software development project, the authors attack the meat of their subject. Each of the nine chapters of part two corresponds directly to one of the PMI's project management knowledge areas.…

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Project Managers in Transition

…is built on certain agile principles, including small, cross-functional teams, frequent inspect-and-adapt feedback loops, and people over process. Practices include a small set of roles, meetings, and tools that teams depend on for success. The ScrumMaster is often considered an agile coach for the team, ensuring the team can do…

…increasingly popular way for agile teams to express requirements. Teams like that working with user stories shifts the emphasis from writing about requirements to talking about them. Project customers like that they are not expected to do the impossible and identify all needs upfront. Users of a product built with…

An agile process like Scrum has been applied successfully in many industries. But does it work for complex projects such as video game development, where so many different functional specialties must come together to create a product that is equal parts story telling, movie and game? Absolutely. Leading agile speaker…

…a contract with an agile shop. Then again, maybe you need to outsource part of your development and need to structure a contract with an agile team. Whatever your situation, you need to know how to successfully do contract development with agile. This presentation by agile expert and author Mike…

…has been written about agile processes is intended for programmers and project managers. As an agile product manager, product owner, or member of the customer team, you need help identifying user needs and determining how best to meet those needs. Yet very little information is available to help you identify…

…shatter the myth that agile teams can't plan. We'll start by looking at the benefits of the short cycles of iterative and incremental development. We'll then look at the six different levels of planning that occur in agile organizations. We'll see what user stories are and why they've become the…

…and I get the agile thing, which is why we’ve written the contract to allow you to focus on my prioritized backlog. That said, we had to do our due diligence because we’ve collected funds from multiple stakeholders to fund this program. They want to know what they’re going to…

…teams is a difficult agile project management challenge. On my first Scrum project, we started with only one team. That project soon grew to three teams, with the typical dependencies between them. I quickly arrived at what I thought would be a good way to manage those dependencies. I would…

…advice about this in Agile Software Development Ecosystems. Don’t start with an initial ‘learning project’ that is of marginal importance. Start on a project that is absolutely critical to your company; otherwise it will be too difficult to implement all the hard things Scrum will ask of you. Business sponsor…

…When a team adopts agile it affects nearly every aspect of how team members do their daily work. A pervasive change like that is challenging. Even if team members are motivated to succeed at the change, there will be times they question whether it’s worth the effort. It’s true: Something…