PMI-Agile Webinar – “Does Risk Mgt have a place in an Agile Lifecycle?”
We often have questions about relating traditional PM practices to Agile practices. This is especially true in the area of risk. In this one hour webinar, Greg Smith (Author of Becoming Agile) and Donna Reed (The Agilista PM) will cover traditional risk management techniques and contrast them to the Agile risk management practices.
You will learn how to use traditional risk management in harmony with an Agile lifecycle and how to perform risk management at a level that minimizes waste and over-planning.
Areas covered include
- BURP (Big Upfront Risk Planning),
- daily risk management,
- and Team involvement in risk identification.
Hosted by: PMI Agile Community of Practice
Duration: 1 hour
PDU’s earned: 1
How To Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps
Scrum is not a hard concept to understand. But there are a lot of parts ot making it successful. I found a great article that explains how to implement Scrum in just 10 easy steps from getting your backlog in order to tracking progress through burn charts, and more… Thanks goes out to Kelly Waters, from All About Agile, who writes:
When I first encountered agile development, I found it hard to understand. Okay, I might not be the brightest person you’ve ever met! But I’m not stupid either, I think 
There’s a myriad of different approaches, principles, methods and terms, all of which are characterised as ‘Agile’. And from my perspective, all this ‘noise’ makes agile software development sound far harder, far more scientific, and far more confusing than it really needs to be.
Collaboration by Leveraging Better Problem Solving
Toyota Motor Corporation is famed for its ability to relentlessly improve operational performance. Central to this ability is the training of engineers, supervisors and managers in a structured problem-solving approach that uses a tool called the A3 Problem-Solving Report – that facilitates and improves knowledge sharing and collaboration.
The term “A3″ derives from the paper size used for the report, which is the metric equivalent to 11″ x 17″ (or B-sized) paper. Toyota actually uses several styles of A3 reports–for solving problems, for reporting project status, and for proposing policy changes–each having its own “storyline.”
The A3 Report is one of the most powerful tools in the lean toolset. Although it looks pretty simple, it is one of the most effective means of pulling together many of the tools used in problem solving and reporting. You can’t go wrong by learning how to use this tool and then implementing it within your organization.
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Burn Down Chart Tutorial: Simple Agile Project Tracking
For me, going from a non-agile development methodology to an agile one should have been simple. I had read the articles, attended the seminars, and knew the theory. However, what I did not have was a basic template for project tracking throughout an iteration. This article provides that template with the burn down chart shown below being the end goal. The only tool we need is a spreadsheet.*
LIVE COACHING RECORDING – Accountability: Creating Winning Teams !
Back by popular demand…Join us at this 1 hour live coaching session where Birgit Zacher Hanson, author of Who Will Do What by When? will reveal how to change the accountability game and make it winnable. Birgit will also answer questions in real-time while coach participants on real-life-issues that relates to getting others to commit and follow-through.
Birgit helps corporations with the following – she can help you too !
- Strengthen leadership capabilities and help leaders develop coaching skills that lead to sustainable excellence
- Build collaborative teams and work cultures that enable superior project execution in alignment with business strategy
- Empower individuals to fulfill on their potential and reach new levels of success
Can you make people do anything they don’t want to do?
Holding others accountable is a myth. It’s like Sisyphus being condemned to pushing the rock up the hill… It’s exhausting. If you are a manager whose job it is to get a team to work together and get the job done, this may be bad news. I am sorry.
I know it can be extremely frustrating when nothing you say or do seems to make a sustainable difference with some people.
You can micromanage, push, scold, even threaten certain people and get what you need for a little while, but as soon as you turn them loose, the rock rolls downhill again. And you start over, doing the same thing you have been doing – pushing, scolding, complaining like a broken record.
Keep up to date on Agile-Lean News with Paper.li
One of the greatest tools I’ve found to stay up to date on what is going on in the Agile/Lean space is Paper.li. It is a tool that sends you daily emails from all kinds of social media resourcs on the Agile topic – in newspaper format. So you don’t have to goto twitter, facebook, RSS feeds — it does it for you. Talk about saving you time.
You type in some key words and Paper.li will give you a list of newsletters available to you to subscribe to.
When you subscribe to one – you will get a newsletter emailed to you….
If you don’t see something you want – then create one yourself ! It is super easy. Enjoy !
NEW RECORDING: COACHING – Accountability: Creating a Winnable Game
Can you make people do anything they don’t want to do?
Holding others accountable is a myth. It’s like Sisyphus being condemned to pushing the rock up the hill… It’s exhausting. If you are a manager whose job it is to get a team to work together and get the job done, this may be bad news. I am sorry.
I know it can be extremely frustrating when nothing you say or do seems to make a sustainable difference with some people.
You can micromanage, push, scold, even threaten certain people and get what you need for a little while, but as soon as you turn them loose, the rock rolls downhill again. And you start over, doing the same thing you have been doing – pushing, scolding, complaining like a broken record.
Lean-Agile for Executives & Management
Do you want to know how to talk to your executives and management about the value of Agility and transitioning organizations to Lean-Agile methods?
Then you will want to listen to this excellent recording with Alan Shalloway, CEO of NetObjectives, that will discuss:
- How executives think – what they care about – or not care about
- What questions do they ask?
- How does Agility address their concerns and questions
- What should I say to them?
- and more….
WEBINAR – The PMI Agile Certification (6/23)
June 23, 2011 (9 – 10 am PDT)
It is here. Applications for the PMI Agile Certification pilot started in May and full-blown testing will begin in September 2011. PMI estimates that more than 5,000 people have asked them for more information on the pilot program. ASPE-SDLC, with our leadership position in both Agile and Project Management training, fell uniquely qualified in providing this primer session to help you prepare yourself to obtain this certification.
Primer Overview
• Application Requirements
• Fees
• Exam content overview
• Domains and tasks for Agile Certification
• Training options
• Where this certification fits with the Scrum Alliance certifications
• Q & A
NEW WEBINAR RECORDING – Playing Games: Project Management’s Next Innovation
Communication and social dysfunctional relationships are often associated with project teams’ inability to meet their project goals and objectives. This all too often leads to project’s coming in over budget and/or schedule.
The social and emotional skills of a project teams and individuals have been de-emphasized in favor of process and procedural fulfillment on part of the project profession. In some respects, this is leading towards the commoditization of project management.
There’s a clear need to acknowledge and value of emotional and social intelligence in project teams. Research shows the best way to increase emotional and social intelligence is through experiential processes like ‘serious games’. Serious games provide a powerful, proven new tool for the PM toolkit. They are an engaging, economical way to create respect, trust, appreciation for diversity and ultimately organizational value.
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My Speaking Engagements …..
-Apr 18: TOYOTA HQ: Start Using Agile|Lean in your Projects Today
-Nov 10: HOW TO PLAN, MANAGE, and TRACK ITERATIONS (ProjectTimes)
-Dec 16: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES DURING & AFTER AN ITERATION (ProjectTimes)
-Jan 13: AGILE REQUIREMENT GATHERING & DOCUMENTATION - BEYOND USER STORIES (ProjectTimes)
-Feb 10: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES IN AGILE ADOPTION (ProjectTimes)
Some Agile User-Groups and Links…
