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Agile software development has been a revelation for me. It has brought me and my teams much success, and a very rewarding working environment. Sometimes I hear people say that agile project management isn’t appropriate in all circumstances. In fact, I used to say that myself; however now I’m not so sure. There are some circumstances where an organisation’s culture

Martin Fower – agile software development guru, and CTO of Thoughtworks – has written an interesting blog post about Technical Debt. I love this concept. It’s so simple, and such a compelling way of explaining this classic commercial trade-off decision to business people. Kelly.

One of the elusive things in software development is how to measure business value. For some projects it’s fairly obvious. Maybe there’s a clear revenue benefit. Or a tangible cost saving. Or a very specific risk avoidance. But what about on BAU (Business As Usual)? How do you get some indication of the business value a team is delivering on

Mike Cottmeyer from Version One has written an excellent blog post about Velocity, and the importance of management and teams taking a responsible attitude towards it… Mike also describes the usual challenge in any business – where management need some sort of basis for funding a project, yet teams are really in no position to estimate the size of the

Here is an interesting blog post from Dave Nicolette, about the absence of documentation in agile software development. I’m not quite sure where the eggplant parmesan comes into it! I think Dave might have been drinking 🙂 Nevertheless it’s an interesting and thought-provoking article. In my opinion, some lightweight documentation helps to bring structure to people’s thinking, and obviously helps

Here is an interesting article from Chris Sterling about managing technical debt… Kelly. Photo by SqueakyMarmot

A common question is how to run large agile projects? Answer: You don’t! You break them into multiple small projects. But that puts greater emphasis on two disciplines that many organisations simply don’t have… Architecture, and Programme Management. Admittedly, the discipline of Programme Management is similar to Project Management. Maybe more experienced Project Managers can run programmes. But there is

Here’s another great list from Marios Alexandrou: Project Management Lessons from NASA Kelly.

Marios Alexandrou has posted 21 great project management truisms on his blog… Enjoy! Kelly.