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I recently went to the Agile2016 conference in Atlanta, GA. It was a great conference; I met a lot of people and learned a lot about managing teams and people and how agile is evolving as a practice. But, I saw something else there and throughout my experience working in …
Throughout this 3 Part blog series, we’ve talked about where managers and business stakeholders fit in an agile world and what changes for them. Now that you know what to expect from the agile delivery teams, what can you do to help facilitate a great working relationship? Be Patient When …
Now that you know where you fit in an agile world and are maybe convinced that this whole thing is worth a shot, what changes can you expect in your role as manager or business stakeholder? More Collaboration Collaboration is always important- it’s how the development team knows what needs …
This past year I decided to try something new- get a certification. I looked at many of the certifications on the market, for both Business Analysis and Agile Practices. In the end, I decided to go with the Agile Certified Practitioner, both because I’ve been working on many agile projects …
So, your company is going “agile,” and you’ve heard that in agile they don’t need managers (at least there is no scrum role for a manager). Additionally, all the teams say they’re supposed to be “self-directing” now, whatever that means! What’s a good manager to do? Or are you a …
Much of my work on projects lately has been around coaching and mentoring product owners, both internally at Seilevel and at my customers. What I’ve found is that when companies make the change from traditional or “Waterfall” to more agile methodologies, they don’t always know what to do with this …
Lately, I’ve been working on an Agile project where all the requirements are written in the user story and acceptance criteria format. The acceptance criteria on this project are really the meat and potatoes of the requirements. They tell the developers what to develop and how the system should act …
Continuing my trend of mixing my personal and professional hobbies, I wanted to share some good holiday, agile cheer with you all with a few agile holiday songs. Please feel free to sing along! Rocking around the scrum backlog (to the tune of “Rocking around the Christmas Tree”) Rocking around …
As I work on more and more agile projects and with new development teams, I find that dependency management remains one of the top concerns and hurdles to effective agile projects, even for seasoned agile teams. In one of my previous posts, I talked about Agile Requirements Documents as a …
I absolutely love the Broadway musical “Wicked.” So when my trivia team had a question about Wicked last week, it gave me a great idea for another installment of agile parodies. This time, I chose “Popular,” my favorite Galinda song in the musical where Galinda volunteers to make Elphaba popular. …
