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We’ve seen Consultants so good, that the client is afraid to do anything without the approval of the consultants, and other relationships so poor, that status meeting regularly end in tears. The aim of the Naked Project Management Method is to strip off your consultants’ fancy suits, wheelie suit cases and heavy documentation and work together as a transparent [...]
A few months ago we launched the Agile IT Performance Report – a free 8 page report based on 30 questions regarding how your team works together. We can’t take all the credit as we’ve had the help of a team of Academics and Teamwork Experts from Team Management Systems, who are world leaders in [...]
Up until very recently agile project management was seen as a great approach to software development……..for small projects. Even now, especially in the enterprise space (SAP, Siebel other EPR’s), agile is still seen by some as small-fry, a fun approach for building web sites. I was recently speaking with an old colleague from Deloitte, who [...]
A common fear about agile is that it makes the job of managing scope difficult for your project. This can be true, however, a golden rule of agile software development is that the scope of each iteration or sprint must be completely locked-down once it begins. This means no new requirements, no swapping of requirements [...]
Quite often we get asked by those new to agile project management what exactly an iteration or sprint is? The first thing is that a sprint and an iteration are essentially the same thing, a “sprint” is the term used by scrum, which is the most popular flavour of agile project management. You’ll find that [...]
Whether working on Agile, Scrum or Waterfall projects, it’s really important to remember that user stories and business requirements should only serve the purpose of reminding everyone on the team of conversations and a shared understanding. Many of us have been in the situation, especially when working on traditional waterfall projects where the requirements are [...]
Santa Claus and his team of hard working elves are the latest high profile team to adopt an Agile Approach. They are believed to be the first large scale team to do so, within the Arctic Circle. In a recent interview, Mr. Claus said “I’ve been working with this structured, heavily documented, big-bang approach for [...]
Had a Big Mac lately? I’ve got a good excuse for you – as an experiment to increase the productivity of your team. Did you know that if you go to a McDonalds drive-thru at a certain store in Missouri, the person on the other end of the speaker is actually 900 miles away in [...]
We’re in the Agile Project Management software business. Our Project Management Software is hosted in the cloud - so we make money by charging a monthly fee to our customers. Pretty traditional business model. Last month we decided to try something, its not a new idea, and many companies have done it before us. The [...]
A little history. I am Australian, live in London, most of our customers are in the US and we have developers in both India and Australia. Over the last year with Bright Green and the last five years living away from Australia, I think I have learned a thing or two about working with a [...]