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1. PMI Houston 2010 Conference & Expo
(Downloads/Presentations)

A busy day for me at the PMI Houston annual conference this year.  My thanks to PMI Houston for inviting me to present the following three sessions in the Agile Project Management track. Also my congratulations ...

2. PMI Houston Newsletter Publication
(Activities/Recent Activities)

... what senior management should expect from agile teams.  ...

3. 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, ...

4. 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, ...

5. What's This Thing Called Agility?
(Services/Training)

... inventive projects Agile Teams and Expectations Discussion of different team structures Differences in management/leadership role Expectations are place on team members Defining and assigning work Beliefs ...

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

... highly frustrated because whatever they do seems to be the wrong. This is a sign a poor product management, and that is a problem for leadership to solve; not the development team. Agility relies on having ...

7. 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 ...

8. Agility: What’s In It for Me?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Also published in the February 2010 edition of the PMI Houston newsletter Project Landscape.     Agile adoptions often generate this question from senior management and without a good answer, the ...

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

Traditional project management methods often approach all projects in the same plan driven manner regardless of the level of uncertainty and change represented by the project.  As a result projects fail ...

10. Highlights
(About Me/About Me)

... reinforce development best practices and improve team dynamics.    In support of a multi-million dollar supply chain centralization initiative: Defined Agile project management process to bring suppliers ...

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

Project Management and Agile Leadership  Robbie Mac Iver helps organizations understand agile principles and values, and then create collaborative work environments in which agile practices can thrive. ...

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. Introduction to Agile Project Management - for Association for Women in Computing - Houston
(Downloads/Presentations)

By focusing on business value, transparent collaboration and continuous improvement, agility provides alternative approaches and toolsets than can meet today's challenges.  Using Scrum as an example, ...

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

Traditional project management methods often approach all projects in the same plan driven manner regardless of the level of uncertainty and change represented by the project.  As a result projects fail ...

15. Agility: Its Advanced Citizenship
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... else derives.  If the plan does not actually lead to meeting the business goal, this is not so much the team's problem as management's problem. This is not the expectation of an agile team.  An agile team ...

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

... recognize) where our project falls in the predictive-inventive spectrum and adopt the project management methods that offer us the best chance for success. Waterfall and Agility are both valuable toolsets.  ...

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

... or false? How you answer that might be a good indication of the project management methods best suited for your project. If you think that these four statements of mostly true, then a traditional, step-wise, ...

18. Artful Making
(Resources/Reading Room)

... not about project management. So why recommend it?  How a theater director guides an ensemble of actors in making a play is a remarkably potent model for leading knowledge workers. Carefully tracing the ...

19. Meeting Management - for SYSCO
(Downloads/Presentations)

Meetings often tend to just spring up out of nowhere and accomplish nothing.  Here are some tips for planning and conducting productive meetings that accomplish real business goals.

20. 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