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1. APLN
(Activities/Recent Activities)

My first month or so as President of APLN has been hectic.  First just getting my arms around all the corporate stuff we've been doing, then keeping up with the initiatives we started in the July board ...

2. Agile2010 Reflections
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... session and I'm already looking to get her to APLN Houston and to offer some classes in Houston.  Also a surprise, was Max Keeler's session  showing of agile adoption at Motley Fool.  A great example of ...

3. APLN Houston Presentation
(Downloads/Presentations)

An update to the PMIH agile planning presentation.  This one focuses more on incorporating value generation in our project planning and has an Innovation Game® Buy A Feature exercise to help gain consensus ...

4. Speaking at APLN Houston
(Activities/Recent Activities)

I've always maintained what I thought was an appropriate distance between my consulting work and the APLN Houston chapter.  The chapter is about building a local community of agile enthusiasts and practitioners, ...

5. APLN Houston Midyear Checkpoint
(Activities/Recent Activities)

June 5th saw a midyear checkpoint meeting for the APLN Houston leadership team.  Following up on the January planning meeting, the team took advantage of air conditioning at a local library (thanks to ...

6. The Practices Isn't What's Hard
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

I've finally been taking the opportunity to try out the Pomodoro Technique that Tony Akins so ably explained to APLN Houston in March.  I suppose the fact that it took three months for me to do this should ...

7. APLN Board
(Activities/Recent Activities)

I'm looking forward to the next face-to-face meeting of the national APLN board of directors in July. It will be a follow-up to the meeting in Houston last January in which we identified a bunch of programs ...

8. Maturing APLN Houston
(Activities/Recent Activities)

The APLN Houston leadership team has been doing some significant behind the scenes work in the last few months to add a bit formality to the organization for the purposes of continuity.  Transitioning ...

9. The Power of Self-Organizing Teams
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Responding to Change over Following a Plan; that’s what the Agile Manifesto says we should be doing and self-organizing teams do it quite well. One of the heartache scenarios I have always had with APLN ...

10. Agile2010
(Activities/Recent Activities)

... stage will focus on the activities and people involved in transitioning to agile principles. I am fortunate to be working with APLN colleagues David Chilchott and Derek Wade, who are serving as Assistant ...

11. Control is Not Evil
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

A discussion from Mike Cohn on how leaders and managers are able to lead a self-organizing team. Recorded at an APLN Dallas meeting, Mike shares his thoughts and experiences with self-organizing teams, ...

12. APLN Leadership Summit
(Downloads/Presentations)

Maturing Your Organization's Agile Adoption Held in conjunction with the Agile Development Practices Conference, the APLN Leadership Summit provided another opportunity to collaborate with my friend and ...

13. Robbie Mac Iver, PMP, CSP
(About Me/About Me)

... the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), co-founder of the Houston APLN chapter, and is serving as the Agile Adoption Stage Producer for the Agile2010 conference. A frequent conference speaker, Robbie ...

14. Welcome
('Uncategorised Content')

... level with the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN, APLNHouston). My interests have always been in how teams work most effectively, so a progression toward agility is only natural. It is important to ...

15. Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN)
(Web Links / Agile Organizations)

16. Agile Project Management for an Agile World
(Web Links / Agile on the Web)

Experiences (from multiple projects, in multiple countries, across multiple industries) and thoughts on a wide ranging list of topics related to APM from APLN Houston co-founder Alan Bustamante ...

17. APLN Houston
(Web Links / Agile Organizations)