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WEBINAR – Effective Specifications for Agile Projects
Fast turnaround and short iterations require a very efficient and precise specifications process to provide direction. Two emerging practices of specification “by example” and “agile acceptance testing” enable agile teams to specify, deliver and verify better. This webinar will teach you about these practices and how to implement them in your project.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- how to ensure a shared understanding of specifications by all stakeholders
- how to manage requirements to provide details just in time & ensure all development team members have enough information to work
- how to ensure that the product built is fit for purpose
- how to know when you are really done with a story
- how to facilitate change in software with live documentation
Retrospectives – Make Good Teams Great !
Project retrospectives do more than just help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. They help improve productivity, quality, team trust and more. Where as traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems” or “lessons learned”) are only performed at the end of the project — too late to help.
This 50 min video discusses how organizations using iterative, incremental methods, Agile retrospectives are used to stimulate continuous improvement throughout a project.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- The retrospective cycle
- Where it fits in the Agile process
- What are the 5 parts to a retrospective
- Where will it get you?
- How to support change
WEBINAR – Becoming Agile
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Learn how more traditional PMBOK and Waterfall organizations are becoming agile…and listen to great Q&A sessions with the audience
TOPICS COVERED
- Is Agile only for software projects?
- How and Where to identify areas to leverage Agile
- How do you move to Agile?
- How does Agile affect the traditional Project Manager role?
- and more…
David J Andersen’s book on KANBAN is out….
The founder of KANBAN and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), David J Andersen, just released his latest book called “KANBAN: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business”.
Kanban allows businesses to leverage Agile-Lean approaches for software developement and beyond.
See how this “continuous improvement” and “change methodology” can help your company adopt Agilility as well in chapters that will cover:
- Solving an Agile Manager’s Delemma
- What is the Kanban Method?
- Benefits of Kanban
- Implementing Kanban
- Making Improvements
- Issue Management and Escalation Policies
- and more…..
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The founder of KANBAN, David J Andersen, just released his latest book called “KANBAN:Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business”.
Kanban allows businesses to leverage Agile-Lean approaches for software developement and beyond.
See how this “continuous improvement” and “change methodology” can help your company adopt Agilility as well.
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Article Highlights
Organizations today are facing a crisis. Productivity is one-quarter of 1965 levels. Innovation continues to decline. Workers are disgruntled. Customers are frustrated. Brands are unraveling. Executive turnover is accelerating. In the last 25 years, start-ups created 40 million jobs in the US, while established firms created almost none. Traditional management is broken.
Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally. Moving beyond effective teams: While many have achieved local optimizations of more effective teams, few have achieved agility at the enterprise level. Even when team agility has been achieved, if improvements to how the business is selecting their product enhancements isn’t done, overall return on investment of software development may not have significantly improved. To manifest agility ….. .
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WEBINAR – Selecting & Managing the Best Lifecycle for your Project, Team & Solution
You’ve managed projects but they’re never easy.
They don’t fit into the nice definitions found in project management books. Your schedules are generally off. There are always unkind surprises. Although you’re not failing, you feel you could be more successful. You have many possibilities to make your project rock and roll.
Take a more pragmatic approach to choosing and using the best lifecycle for your project…
You can use an iterative lifecycle to explore prototypes — You can use an incremental lifecycle to start checking features off as done — You can use an agile lifecycle that allows for more adaptability — You can use a combination lifecycles.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- LIFECYCLES – what each looks like
- which RISKS each lifecycle addresses
- HOW TO COMBINE lifecycles for the best way to start managing risk
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WEBINAR – Selling Agile to Management, the Business & your Team
Trying to get BUY-IN from your Organization about using Agile?
Learn how to deal with the common objections about using Agile. They will make you chuckle as well.
Objections like:
- If waterfall works – why not keep doing it?
- Agile doesn’t allow for long-term planning
- Business wants “fixed priced” contracts
- My team is not co-located
- How do I work with non-Agile parts in the organization?
- and more….
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BOOK: The Software Requirements (Memory Jogger)
A handy guide by Ellen Gottesdiener. This inch-thick “pocket book” is easy to carry around and browse through when a busy requirements analyst has a few minutes to spare.
Ellen addresses all aspects of the requirements engineering process:
- elicitation,
- analysis,
- specification,
- validation, and
- management.
Each chapter contains a wealth of practical techniques that can help any software team improve how it deals with requirements. She describes a plethora of requirements “models,” ways to represent different types of requirements-related information.
BOOK: Get FREE chapters from “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn’s NEW book hit the streets Nov 7, 2009.
“Succeeding with Agile” shows both how to get started and then how to get good at Scrum. The author illuminates all teaching points with helpful tips, advice on overcoming common objections, exercises to try, and anecdotes drawn from over a decade of experience helping companies succeed with Scrum. The result is a book that will be reached for and referenced again and again by all stakeholders in an agile organization.
BOOK: Making Things Happen (update to “Art of Project Management”)
Project Management is NOT boring !!! Is it?
Did you ever want to know the secrets to Strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Berkun explains what it takes to lead critical projects from start to finish.
O’Reilly’s review mentions…this book “offers a lively, inspiring, and practical approach to managing projects that draws on Berkun’s own lessons learned in more than a decade of work in the industry.”
My Speaking Engagements …..
-June 2: WEBINAR - Becoming Agile -June 15: PMI California Inland Empire -Sep 9: So Calif Quality Assurance Assoc Let’s Connect!
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