Agile Development - Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

Thank you to everyone who attended the PMI Eastside Breakfast Meeting today, it is a great privledge to be able to share my ideas with you - thank you.

As promised, I have uploaded my slides. You can download the slides in PDF format here. Use this link to download the slides and white paper that was presented at the PMI Global Congress 2007 in Atlanta.

Be sure to check out the resources section for supporting files. As always, please email me with questions.

I was teaching a Certified ScrumMaster course recently and the discussion of “done” came up. I love this topic, it is one that I am very passionate about.

The analogy I use when I think of what done means to me is around wrapping gifts. For this example, we’ll consider Christmas gifts, where done equals a wrapped present under the tree, with a nametag on it, making it potentially shippable – I can add the bow and ribbon later – the additional features required to really wow my customers. The story goes like this.

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk, titled "The Impacts of Poor Estimation - And How to Fix It", presented at the SQE Agile Development Practices Conference in Orlando Florida on 6-DEC 2007.

 As promised, my slides can be downloaded from this link.

Agile is about collaboration and cross functionality.  There are no Heros on Agile teams.  How, then, do the hero's in your company fit in an Agile team or project?  Putting them full time on the project may impact other projects because the expertise is taken offline.  Further, it may cause the persons morale to dip and leave your company, going to a competitor.  That is bad.  What about when we find that we need a SME (or hero) on your project, but only in a limited or short term capacity?  How do you structure your team? 

Here is a messed up interview question that I like to ask when I have at least 1.5 hours with people.  Sovle it now and you've got a job!

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