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What Happens When Projects Are Completed Ahead of Schedule? Are projects ever completed ahead of schedule? It turns out the answer is yes, and interestingly, just as with projects that fall behind, issues can arise with projects completed ahead of schedule. Naomi Karten writes about some of these problems and what to do if you finish a project early. |
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Are You Getting Everything You Need from Your Infrastructure? Culture may be vital to the success of agile, but there are a number of technical requirements that must be in place for development teams to be able to bring the speed and quality that agile was designed to deliver. Nate Odell looks specifically at the needs of an agile infrastructure. |
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Dealing with Jerks at Work When someone bugs you, it’s tempting to characterize that person as a jerk. But is the person truly a jerk, or is it just some aspect of the person’s behavior that’s annoying? What, actually, makes someone a jerk? Naomi Karten defines a jerk's characteristics and tells you how to deal with them. |
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Why Teams Are Responsible for Successful Product Delivery Some believe that a large investment of time and money in requirements gathering and process oversight will lead to a more reliable or safer software product. But is that really the case? Steve Vaughn writes that in agile the team members are responsible for the successful delivery of their product. |
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Learn from the 2013 National Teacher of the Year Rajini Padmanaban profiles the 2013 National Teacher of the Year and the core traits he instills in his students—traits that can also help us improve our performance in the workplace. |
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Avoid Non-Agile Thinking: Hacks, Egotism, and Stagnancy Nirav Assar shares some of the ways to avoid non-agile decorum, by pointing out some of the biggest crimes against agile that he spotted while reading Andy Hunt's Practices of an Agile Developer. How many of these examples have you seen on agile teams that you've worked with? |
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Become a Good Listener to Your Teammates If teammates or customers view you as a poor listener, it’s unlikely they’re going to tell you. Instead, they'll let their impression of you color their attitude toward you and their satisfaction with your work. But you can avoid that. Naomi Karten gives you advice on becoming a good listener. |
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Are You a Micromanager? There's a difference between hands-on management, which can be positive, and micromanagement, which means you must make every decision, you take a lead role in all significant tasks, and you ignore others' ideas. Naomi Karten reveals more warning signs—plus ways to deal with being a micromanager. |
