Agile

Posts about agile project management and project management in general.

Writing a Project Charter saved my butt

January 18, 2012
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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, additional…

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CrockPot Agile: AdHoc to Agile in 10 Steps

April 5, 2011
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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 a…

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Why Agile Works: QA should not be the Sphincter

March 17, 2011
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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 how…

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