TweetSo Chegg launched our new eReader today so I thought I would take a moment to talk about writing a Project Charter per Johanna Rothman’s excellent book on project management. Johanna recommends that for every project you sit down and write out a project charter. The project charter states the purpose of the project,...
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CrockPot Agile: AdHoc to Agile in 10 Steps
TweetOk, so you’re working at a non-Agile shop, possibly even a shop with bad project management. How do you get them to being Agile if you’re not the CEO or VP of Engineering? By doing something I call: CrockPot Agile CrockPot Agile is my term for converting your shop to Agile development by making...
Why Agile Works: The Success Well
TweetOne of the useful concepts I learned in martial arts was the idea of a well of success. I’ve found the concept useful both for managing people in general, and for understanding while Agile teams report such large productivity increases. Every person has a success well. If you try something...
Why Agile Works: QA should not be the Sphincter
TweetI dedicate this post to all the QA departments I had to deal with early in my career. This post is all about how typical project management styles, especially the so called waterfall or even worse “half-assed waterfall” makes things hell for QA. So first, we’ll talk about the problem, then we’ll talk about...