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1. 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 ...

2. Stairway to Agility
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... goals. Want to improve the alignment between your business and technology groups? How about getting your products to market faster? Perhaps being more predictable in delivering your projects? Getting a ...

3. 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 ...

4. Agile Leadership
(Services/Consulting)

... the end of the project when everything is done. My manager wants to be agile, but still requires a detailed task level plan for all the whole project before we begin doing any work. My team understands ...

5. Not Suitable for Agile?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... the well-worn "Tip" that agile is not for every team or for every project.  This clearly takes us back to the "agile is a set of practices" school of thought doesn't it? Rising above the practices view, ...

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

Thanks to PMI Houston VP of Communications Pankaj Gupta for including a recent article of mine in the February 2010 edition of Project Landscape. The article, Agility: What's in it for me?, talks about ...

7. 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, ...

8. 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, ...

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

... think of when you hear “Agile” The Agile Manifesto Explained Exercise: Complexity of changing the “agile” balance Projects and Project Methods Discussion different types of projects Predictive versus ...

10. Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility
(Resources/Reading Room)

Stand Back and Deliver - Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little, Kent McDonald Differentiating, Partner, Parity, Who Cares.  Where does your project fall, and what might you do differently because ...

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

... looks at projects, teams and leadership required for success. Maturing Your Organization's Agile Adoption In collaboration with Bryan Campbell  this presentation uses the Seven Stages of Expertise model ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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. ...

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

... and/or a quick update of your resume. In an agile world, project schedules that are derived from executive fiat will ultimately lower product quality and destroy the team, not necessarily in that order.  ...

18. 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, ...

19. The Art of Burndown
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... its work, and the chart is intended to communicate the progress of the team during an iteration. If you were the product owner, or other stakeholder for this project, what would this burndown actually ...

20. 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 ...