I’ve previously written about how to get rid of your bug backlog. I used that at SkyPort Systems to radically trim the backlog, and surface and prioritize code infrastructure that needed to be upgraded. It was very useful for justifying…
Category: Agile
Posts about agile project management and project management in general.
Writing a Project Charter saved my butt
So 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…
CrockPot Agile: AdHoc to Agile in 10 Steps
Ok, 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…
Why Agile Works: The Success Well
One of the useful concepts I learned in martial arts was the idea of a success well. Every person has a success well. If you try something and fail, your success well empties. If you try something and succeed, you…
Why Agile Works: QA should not be the Sphincter
I 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…