8 Articles match "Exercises","Project Management"

7 Articles match "Exercises","Project Management"

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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 kind of project management but it is the form project management usually takes that I have a problem with.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, October 6, 2005
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• An organization mapping exercise
  
  Last night I ran an organizational mapping exercise at the Extreme Tuesday Club. For example, the person playing the “Project Manager” understood this as an enabler role, more of a coach, while others where expecting him to manage a project. frustrated developer got fed up of project management and testing and decided to talk to the user directly.) got some insights from the exercise - I might write them up in more detail in the next few days or weeks. What, you may ask is that? This is a very powerful technique. This was different.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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• What does an Agile coach do?
  
  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 by developers themselves. also work with the entire team – managers, developers, testers, etc. I often describe myself as an Agile Coach.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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• Agile FAQ - Kicking off another Agile team
  
  Writing a document can be a useful learning exercise but there are other, and faster, ways to do similar things. Q: How do we manage dependencies between tasks? And if the project manager gets a shock then so be it. A: Yes but in general I find scope reduces on Agile projects. I recently gave some coaching to a big, well known, UK company get an Agile team started. Its interesting, this team have a few novelties all of their own, I’ll blog about that some other time. But they also have all the same questions and doubts that other teams have. A: Yes.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, June 29, 2009
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• Knowledge based product development
  
  I've commented here before that I have recently become a Product Manager - when I say recently it was almost six months ago now. Of course I want to be a good product manager so I've been looking around material to tell me how to be a good product manager, much to my surprise I find that there are very few books written on the subject of product management. Indeed depending on your industry the role of Product Manager differs. In my search for product management books I came across " Product Development For The Lean Enterprise " by Michael N.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, September 30, 2005
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• FAQ: What is the hardest part getting Agile?
  
  In both cases I like to use plenty of exercises. For example: Adopting Agile project management means you need to change the way you plan at the moment. Continuing your PRINCE2 based project management while running an Agile project management process in tandem is self defeating. I made a passing comment in the last blog entry to “the hardest bit” of Agile. keep feeling I should elaborate rather than leaving the comment hanging. It was a natural question and one I realised I‘d heard several times before in different forms. And the answer is.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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• Retrospectives need a learning culture
  
  I attended a project retrospectives training session last week. My guide has been Norm Kerth’s Project Retrospectives book and a whole bunch of ideas I’ve picked up over the years. Retrospectives expose the lie that your boss/manager/leader knows best. So retrospectives can be threatening to managers who feel they are loosing some power. rdquo; and perhaps they limit the whole thing to an hour, and perhaps the team leader or project manager acts as facilitators. In a learning culture managers have already accepted that the team knows best.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, March 29, 2007
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