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 to the conference team lead by Jane Boucher for another successful conference.
Accelerating Your Organization's Agile Adoption
My colleague Bryan Campbell and I continue to refine this presentation based on what we learn each time we present it. This incarnation includes an new name and a growing emphasis on break out groups discussing real world scenarios and thinking through how one's level of agile maturity will shape the approach to the scenario. Next stop for this one is Agile2010 in August.
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Self-Assessment Handout Problem Scenarios
Agile Planning: It's All Relative
How long with that take? What will that cost? What is that really worth? Although we get asked these questions all the time, answering them with absolute values is hard, rarely accurate as we would like, and sometimes even a little misleading. Agile planning answers these questions is a different way respecting the fact that we often don’t know much about a project when we get asked these questions. Using a variant of the Wideband Delphi technique, agile planning incorporates expert opinion, analogy and disaggregation to assess the relative value to drive the project work we are taking on. Thanks to the PMO team at BMC Software and Lunch-N-Learn program coordinator Jose Martinez for allowing me a dry run of the planning poker exercise prior to the conference.
Presentation Planning Poker Exercise Handout
What's This Thing Called Agility?
This session continues to provide me new insight with each audience. Coming at the end of the conference let me take more of a retrospective slant based on what participants of the Agile Project Management track had seen and heard over the two days of sessions. The overriding message continues to be that adopting agile principles is more than just adopting a new set of practices. To reach the full potential of agility, one must also adopt agile values and create an organizational culture that fosters the openness and trust needed for agile teams to truly succeed.
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