Posts made in janvier, 2010


My journey is actually the PMI bootcamp – A five day course to prepare for the PMP certification, completed with fellow Agile coach – and it has allowed us to see some great stuff. To the left, we had beautiful Rolling Waves and to the right, Progressive Elaboration. Most days were warm and sunny in PMI country – running through the green fields of cost, risk, and talent, oops! HR management. But these dark clouds...

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It feels good to have a common enemy, someone or something to hate or discredit. What this usually does is create a sense of unity between individuals who share a common view. We do this with programming languages (Java vs. .Net), philosophies (Waterfall vs. Agile) and even within those philosophies (Scrum vs. DSDM vs. Crystal vs. …). One of my preferred antagonists was the all mighty monolithic Project Management Institute...

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My Top 10 Agile events of the decade 1- Creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001 2- Kent Beck re-exposes Test Driven Development in 2003 3- First Agile Conference in 2003, held in Salt Lake City 4- Ken Schwaber releases Agile Project Management with Scrum in 2004 5- Mike Cohn releases Agile Estimating and Planning in 2005 6- Esther Derby and Diana Larsen release Agile Retrospectives in 2006 7- In 2007, some of...

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