Project Shrink Links 11-02-2008
Tiger Teams vs. Agile Project Management Practices
"Often times when introducing some of the basic agile project management practices to new teams (for example, the daily standup) some of the more experienced (ok, older) team members comment on the fact that these techniques look a lot like the techniques they used in the past when their projects were in deadline trouble."
Mingle on my Wii: The Purple Cow of Agile Project Management Tools
"The next thing I got working on the Wii was Mingle. I was inspired by the YouTube video of Agile 2007 where Studios was demonstrating Mingle on a Wii to the conference attendees. All I had to do was point the Wiis Opera browser to an instance of Mingle running from my laptop on the local network, and lo and behold Mingle was right there on my Wii."
Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development
"For the last four years ThoughtWorks has operated a lab in Bangalore India to support our software development projects in North America and Europe. Traditional approaches to offshore development are based on plan-driven methodologies, but we are very firmly in the agile camp. Here I discuss our experiences and lessons learned in doing offshore agile development. So far we've discovered that we can make it work, although the benefits are still open to debate."
Introduction of Lean Project Management
"So what is lean principle and how to apply Lean principle in Agile project management? Typically Lean processes; synchronize the flow of work, through the business balance work loads, reduce work in progress and shortens lead times. Lean has seven principles."
No More Iterations
"We've committed to iteration-less pull based software development starting on Monday for one of my teams. A number of factors led up to this decision, not to mention the vast amount of discussion I had with my project managers."
Multi-Tasking is Killing Your Business
"I read a couple of articles recently and can now distill the vague feeling that I've always had that multi-tasking is not a good thing down to a simple statement that it is certainly a very bad thing. And I can prove it."
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