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SPaMCAST 283 – User Stories Pure and Simple

http://www.spamcast.net Listen to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 283.  The SPaMCAST 283 features our essay on user stories.  A user story is a brief, simple requirement statement from the...

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SPaMCAST 285 – FAQ of a Consulting Kind, The Software Sensei, Failure Mode...

http://www.spamcast.net Listen to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 285. SPaMCAST 285 features a compilation of frequently asked questions of a consulting kind.  Working as a traveling...

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SPaMCAST 287 – Scrum The Face of Agile, Constraints, Tame the Flow

Listen to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 287. SPaMCAST 287 features our essay on Scrum. Scrum is the nearly ubiquitous project management process that has become the face of Agile to many...

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When Don’t Daily Stand-up Meetings Make Sense

Superman probably does not need a stand-up meeting but Clark Kent is another story! The daily stand-up meeting has become a nearly ubiquitous feature of Agile projects and also can be found in Kanban...

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Distributed Agile: Daily Stand-up Meetings

Stand-ups are best on your feet! Distributed Agile teams require a different level of care and feeding than a co-located team in order to ensure that they are as effective as possible. This is even...

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The Heavyweight Championship of Agile

Without a framework, the building falls. Team-based frameworks, techniques and methods have dominated the discussion over short history of Agile as a named movement. Concepts like Scrum and Extreme...

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Agile Risk Management: Ad-hoc Processes

The CFO here wants to move away from vague generic invoices because he feels (rightly so) that the agency interprets the relationship as having carte blanche… There are many factors that cause...

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Agile Concepts: Scaling Agile and the Scrum of Scrums

Don’t let conversation wander, or the participants will lose focus (and maybe take a nap). In the long run it probably would be possible deliver all projects or releases with a single Agile team....

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Agile Concepts: Notes on Scrum of Scrums

The city is a town at a different scale. The Scrum of Scrums is a common tool to scale Agile. In many cases the technique works admirably, however as Scrum-based Agile is applied to larger and larger...

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SPaMCAST 313 – Initial Backlogs

http://www.spamcast.net Listen to the Software Process and Measurement Cast now! SPaMCAST 313 features our essay on developing an initial backlog.  Developing an initial backlog is an important step to...

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SPaMCAST 325 – Product Owners, Kim Pries, Jo Ann Sweeney

http://www.spamcast.net Listen to the Software Process and Measurement Cast Subscribe to the Software Process and Measurement Cast on ITunes The Software Process and Measurement Cast our essay on...

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Agile Roles: What does a product owner do?

  One of the product owner’s roles is to buy the pizza (or the sushi!) The product owner role, one of the three identified in Scrum, is deceptively simple. The product owner is the voice of the...

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Agile Roles: What do product owners do other than make decisions?

  The product owner role is anything but boring. The role of the product owner is incredibly important. The decision-making role of a product owner helps grease the skids for the team so that they...

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SPaMCAST 330 – Anthony Mersino, Agile Project Management

http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe on iTunes This week’s Software Process and Measurement Cast features our interview Anthony Mersino, author of Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers...

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Three Cadence Complaints

Longer isn’t necessarily better. In Agile, cadence is the number days or weeks in a sprint or release. Stated another way, it is the length of the team’s development cycle. The cadence that a project...

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Project Management Is Dead (Refined)

An Eternal Flame. In Mastering Software Project Management (J Ross Publishing 2010), Murali Chemuturi and I define software project management as the activities required to plan and lead software...

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Scaling Agile: Scrum of Scrums, Membership Revisited

Pick a direction? A Scum of Scrums (SoS) is a mechanism that has been adopted to coordinate a group of teams so that they act as a team of teams.  Historically the concept of a SoS was not part of the...

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Agile Program Manager

Individually, each boy is a project. Together they’re a program to be managed. Scaling Agile project management to large, complex endeavors requires an Agile Program Manager to address the big picture...

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Scaling Agile: Scrum of Scrums: Anti-patterns Part 1

Heads up! A Scum of Scrums (SoS) is a mechanism to coordinate a group of teams so that they act as a team of teams.  SoS is a powerful tool. As with any powerful tool, if you use it wrong, problems...

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Scaling Agile: Scrum of Scrums – Anti-patterns Part 2

Different sort of pyramid syndrome A Scrum of Scrums (SoS) is a mechanism to coordinate a group of teams so that they act as a team of teams. Powerful tools often have side effects that, if not...

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