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CMM & Agile
It seems to spend a lot of time talking about the authors of the Agile manifesto and founders of the Agile Project Leadership Network. Namely large projects, often military in nature, often with life at risk, and with a low-trust relationship between supplier and client. Conversely, Agile came from a different environment: mainly corporate IT groups, small projects (no more than a dozen or two people), with high-trust within the team. I’ve finally, about 6 months after everyone else, got around to reading the Software Engineering Institutes report on CMMI and Agile. Entitled
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Saturday, August 15, 2009
What does an Agile coach do?
I tend to work from the process and management side, so I spend most of my time with team leaders, managers, business analysts and product managers. That could be project planning, talking to the business, talking to the development team, or about ongoing problems. Sometimes these are one-on-one conversations to address specific issues raised by managers, and sometimes they are conversations initiated I often describe myself as an Agile Coach. In fact coaching teams in Agile development is only part of what I do but its the only bit that fits in two words.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Taking Japan by storm (and not taking Kingston)
After slogging my way into London’s through the worst snow in 18 years on Monday and Tuesday this week to deliver a Agile Project Management course, I was a little relieved when Kingston & Croydon BCS cancelled last nights presentation - because of the weather. My book, Changing Software Development: Learning to become Agile is going to be translated into Japanese. Still I was a sorry to miss the evening. If you were one of those who planned to come along all I can say is Sorry , I believe it will be rescheduled for a later date. But, when I opened my e-mail I
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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On project management
I finished my last entry by taking a swipe at project management and even project managers. That was probably unfair but the fact is I am not a fan of project management It could be a career limiting move to speak against project management but I feel I should say something to explain my sideswipe, I should explain my thoughts. Of course I'm not naive enough heretical think projects “just happen" - there needs be some I am not alone in my views, but they are somewhat heretical. In their book “Lean Software Development” Mary and
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Thursday, October 6, 2005
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1-day Agile Project Management Course
She’s asked me point out that she still has places left on her 1-day Agile Project Management course in London this Friday . What’s more she promises a discount to anyone who mentioned my name when bookin I mentioned Liz Sedley in my last post and she noticed!
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Monday, April 21, 2008
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Talk to the BCS Project Management group
I’ve been invited to speak to the BCS Project Management Group - PROMS-G - subject is “Why and How to become Agile” . I believe all are welcome but advance booking is necessar Its rather short notice this one, 9 September in Central London.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Book review: Agile Project Management with SCRUM (and rant)
It is difficult to say anything bad about Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber, 2004). It is a short book, lucid and easy to read. It sticks to its topic - managing projects using scrum. If this book has a failing it is: who will read it? - I’m not sure. Rather than present Scrum in depth (which I think he has done elsewhere) Schwaber walks us through a set of small case studies and reflections on each one. There is probably not enough information here for someone to implement Scrum but I find it hard to see what someone experienced
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Book review: IT Success!
I share a publishing house (John Wiley & Sons) and and editor with this book so you might consider my opinions biased. However I had no idea this book was being written and produced at about the same time as mine. The first I knew about this books’ existence was a mention in the FT . I’ve just finished reading IT Success! (yes, yes, there is an exclamation mark there) by Michael Gentle and I’m glad I did.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, February 17, 2008
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Requirements led projects (not really a book review)
I’ve been trying to read Requirements Led Projects by Suzzanne and James Robinson for a few months and I think I’m about to give up. I’m about 150 pages into a 300 page book but I’ve been stalled for a while now and my attempts to re-start have not got far. This is a shame because I do like the book, and I don’t want to give it a bad review but if I can’t make it to the end then it has something lacking. I bought this book because for the last year or so I’ve been very concerned about requirements on development efforts. OK, I’ve been concerned about this for
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Friday, September 26, 2008
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Book review: Thinking beyond lean (Cusumano & Nobeoka)
A few weeks ago I picked up the book to check something and decided it was worth a re-read. The book is a study of how car companies develop their products, and specifically, how they reuse the designs to product additional products, e.g. I did write about the book after my first reading and still agree with what I said then, there is good advice here we can apply to software development. I originally read Thinking Beyond Lean (1998) over four years ago, it was good at the time and its still good. Four years ago I didn’t know as much as I do now about lean production
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, July 23, 2006
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