Scrum Agile Project Management

Using Agile and Lean at Portfolio Level

October 28, 2015 0

In this Agile Practitioners meeting, Emily Webber will talk about scaling up using agile and lean techniques, using UK Government Digital Service (GDS) as an example. This presentation looks at how GDS took learnings from managing projects and programmes using agile and lean techniques and translated them to the portfolio framework across an organisation of 300 people: what forums and decisions points they adopted, how they managed and measured workflow as well as how the team did it and what they learnt along the way.

Pair Programming for Remote Teams

October 26, 2015 0

Pair programming is one of the original practice of eXtreme programming, but it is also one of the least used by Agile software development teams. In his blog post, Alisdair McDiarmid explains how Customer.io uses pair programming with remote teams.

Actionable Agile Tools

October 19, 2015 0

The basic rules of Agile project management frameworks like Scrum are deceptively simple. Drawing from his experience as an Agile coach, Jeff Campbell offers in his book “Actionable Agile Tools” some lightweight practices and tools that could help you to implement successfully an Agile approach.

Scrum… Really

October 14, 2015 0

Scrum has long been the most popular of the Agile approaches for software development. But what is Scrum really about? What does a great Scrum team look like? Is Scrum really the flexible, free-spirited collection of ‘frameworks’ that are so often believed to be able to be tailored to suit what works for us? In our attempts to be ‘Agile’, have we forgotten the benefits of structure and discipline? Do we bend Scrum too much to suit us, and what is the impact of this?

Remote Retrospective Exercise

October 5, 2015 0

The retrospective is one of 12 principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto. If this is easy to do this for collocated Scrum teams, how can you achieve good results if you have remote members. In this blog post, Robert Matheson provides a valuable collaborative retrospective technique that can be used for distributed Scrum teams.