Category: Project Management

Project management, product development management or whatever you may choose to call it. It is all about creating the right sets of circumstances to reach your goals together with other people.

18 top agile practices

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Haitian vodou altar - embodying top practices

Big ideas are dangerous. Something worked somewhere some when but it will not work everywhere and always. Teams and companies are likely to pick some agile practices while they disregard others. Keep reading for a list of the most agile sectors and the most common agile practices.

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Worthless ideas and valuable innovation

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Ideas as lightbulbs. How much are they worth?

Information is so durable that not even a black hole can destroy it. So what happens with a ubiquitous commodity that is more durable than even space itself? It quickly becomes worthless, even worse than worthless. Consider ideas: no sooner do people come up with ideas than they try to…

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I need help with home automation IoT

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Today, I am starting on a new project. I am going to automate my hen-house and I need your help to do it. I have never really been a gadget person. I have used the same personal computer at home since I built it from spare parts in 2003. I don’t own a tablet or a smart watch. I chop my wood with an axe, not a machine. It’s not that I don’t like gadgets, I just don’t see the business case. Continue reading

Mob programming – with Woody Zuill

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Whenever we have urgent, complex work we sit down and do it together. In our every day work, we make do with occasional meetings. Why do daily scrums when you can do day long scrums? That is how I understand mob programming, but that is not why Woody Zuill and his team started with it. Continue reading

4 myths about software development productivity

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Greger Wikstrand and Joakim Lindbom talk about software development productivity.

There is no conflict between speed and quality! That was the header for lesson one of your relearning program. You want to improve software development productivity in yourself, your team or your organization? Then follow me along and debunk a few myths.

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Hangouts with Greger Wikstrand and friends

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So far, I have done three public hangouts with friends in different places. I’ve created a playlist with all of them for your convenience.

At this time, there are three YouTube videos in the playlist, one for each of the hangouts I’ve done so far. You will find two videos where I discuss agile and lean contracts with Jacopo Romei and one video where I discuss agile retrospectives with Mario Lucero.

The playlist will be expanded with each future hangout. Will my next hangout be with you? Let me know and we’ll set it up. 🙂

Risk Management in Three Simple Steps

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The word "Risk" as Grafitti on a wall

[bibshow] Risk management is a diverse topic. It can be the simple intuitive risk handling that we do in our everyday lives. We are born with a survival instinct, or a risk aversion [bibcite key=”citeulike:454986″], that helps us avoid falling off roofs and other dangerous things. Risk management can also…

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Sometimes #noestimates can’t help you predict the future

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Now that #noestimates has become fairly mainstream, you could wonder how #noestimates can help you predict the future? When I saw that InfoQ included #noestimates as part of their “State of Agile” article for 2014 it was clear to me that #noestimates will continue to be part of our common…

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Two recent posts

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I’ve recently posted two pieces of content on other platforms:

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Should you distrust agile?

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Should you distrust people who play with rubber chickens at work?

Why do some people distrust agile software development? Should you distrust agile software development? How can you possible trust people who say that they will “take your money and deliver something” after a month or so? How can you possible trust people who have a rubber bird as part of…

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