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1. Scrum Basics for Product Owners
(Services/Training)

Scrum is often thought of as a Software Development Life Cycle but in reality it is a project management framework applicable to any type of problem domain.  This workshop introduces the Scrum framework, ...

2. Scrum Basics for Developers
(Services/Training)

Scrum is often thought of as a Software Development Life Cycle but in reality it is a project management framework applicable to any type of problem domain.  This workshop introduces the Scrum framework, ...

3. 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 ...

4. That’s Not My Problem – and That’s OK
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... with peril and nobody wants to get it “wrong”, or have to tell some stakeholder that his pet feature has to wait. So, traditionally real answers are often avoided and the development team is given no clear ...

5. Houston Tech*Fest 2009
(Downloads/Presentations)

... developed by Meilir Page-Jones to propose a framework that will help you understand where you are, where you want to get to, and the leadership required to keep your teams progressing in their development ...

6. What's a Manager to Do?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... yourself, be sure to watch this video from Michele Sliger A Manager's Role in Agile Development: The Light Bulb Moment Because agile teams are supposed to be self-organizing, many "classic" management ...

7. Brian Marick’s Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Here is a very entertaining and informative look at how an agile software development team ought to work.  While all teams will find different ways to be successful, this is a very useful benchmark for ...

8. Pollyanna Pixton’s Collaborative Leadership: A Secret to Agile Success
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Anyone who knows Pollyanna knows that she is all about Colloborative Leadership.  Watch her keynote from Agile Development Practices 2008. When members of a development project are asked to become a self-directed ...

9. Scrum is Not Just for Software - for PMI Houston Conference & Expo
(Downloads/Presentations)

... to meet their anticipated business objectives and overall confidence in the team's ability to deliver is lost.  Agile methods are becoming well established to address these issues in software development ...

10. Highlights
(About Me/About Me)

... and priorities.    For a provider of oil & gas software products: Provided agile leadership and coaching for a product development group to improve their adoption of agile values and practices. Consulted ...

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

... has spoken locally at PMI Houston conferences, Houston TechFest events, and several local professional organizations.  He has also spoken at the APLN Leadership Summit in conjunction with the Agile Development ...

12. You Want That When?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

If you lead software development teams, then you likely have had this reaction to the management decree of delivering some set of software features by an arbitrary date. Sometimes that is followed by therapy ...

13. Scrum is Not Just for Software
(Downloads/Articles)

... to meet their anticipated business objectives and overall confidence in the team's ability to deliver is lost.  Agile methods are becoming well established to address these issues in software development ...

14. Individuals and Interactions
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... serves as a good foundation for the rest. Getting the right individuals interacting in constructive ways is not a new idea, nor one suddenly born when thinking of software development.   Consider Dan Pompei's ...

15. What is Wrong with Waterfall?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... though.  In his book Agile & Iterative Development; A Manager's Guide, Craig Larman describes two broad categories of projects: Predictive - You can define all the work for the project upfront, put a ...

16. The Role of Leadership in Software Development
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Here is a great video from Mary Poppendieck speaking about leadership in software development efforts. ypEMdjslEOI  ...

17. Fearless Change
(Resources/Reading Room)

... introduced.  The pattern names themselves allow us to speak and be understood in this language. For instance: As an Evangelist I want to introduce iterative development by proceeding Step By Step to Test ...

18. Requirements Truths
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Consider these four statements about software development requirements: You can discover all the requirements upfront. You can minimize requirements changes early in the development cycle. Once you select ...

19. Artful Making
(Resources/Reading Room)

... have in common?  Their conclusion: “Like it or not, artists have something useful to say to business people. Let’s get use to that. And use it.” This book is not about agility, not about software development, ...

20. What Does Done Mean?
(Downloads/Articles)

How to determine if a developer is “done” with a particular piece of code is often not well defined. As result software development projects can incur significant rework of features previously thought ...