agile transition
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Personal Kanban—I Think I’m Doing It Wrong A kanban board seems like the perfect way to visualize your tasks and organize priorities. But what happens when the backlog starts to get overwhelming? How do you stop the kanban board from becoming a task board? And how do you account for all the little tasks that weasel their way in every day? |
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An Overlooked Barrier to Agile Adoption Agile adoption isn’t easy. It can often be a long, difficult, uphill climb. However, that climb can bring you to the top of your game and even give you a look down on the competition. But there is one barrier to successful agile adoption that often gets overlooked. Read on to find out what it is. |
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Shift Left and Put Quality First When switching to an agile workflow, it's assumed that you'll be able to deliver products faster and more efficiently right away. But adopting agile is just one part of the equation. You also have to focus on the technical enablers you need. Adam Auerbach explains some factors that worked for him. |
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AgileConnection Update: Transitions, Distributed Teams, and Managers Johanna Rothman, technical editor of AgileConnection, highlights some of the content that's being published on the site, including articles about using certain agile practices on an otherwise traditional project, the challenges of distributed teams, and another myth for misguided managers. |
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I Don’t Sprint, I Stroll: A Non-Techie’s Journey to Product Ownership What happens when the director of marketing becomes a product owner for some of her company's web properties? She gets a crash course on the real meaning of agile development and her role in it all—and a newfound respect for the people who work in software engineering every day. |
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Book Review: Management 3.0 It's challenging to be a manager or a leader, much less both, and the challenges are greater on an agile team. Jurgen Appelo's book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders explores what management and leadership mean in a world of agile and self-organizing teams. |
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Project Management Is Not a Dirty Word Some people dislike the idea of agile project managers, but for teams transitioning to agile, there is a place for management. That place is creating an environment in which the team learns how to self manage. Read on to discover how a PM should offer support and servant leadership to an agile team. |
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Four Principles for Designing Your New Agile Project There are guidelines for those transitioning to agile. You have to know how your product releases and how often. Next, you should determine how complex your product is. Johanna Rothman helps you determine what type of product you have and how you can work on it while making the transition to agile. |
