Scrum Alliance Webinar Series

The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

November 17, 2009

Agile methods emphasize trust, empowerment, and collaboration-moving us away from command and control project management to harness the passion, creativity, and enthusiasm of the team. In established organizations, success with agile practices hinges on how well traditional project managers adopt new ways of thinking about project structure and control. Building on the principles… Read more »

Agile Versus Everthing Else

September 22, 2009

The great minds of software management are holding their heads these days over the questions of waterfall versus Agile, and architecture versus Agile, and everything-else-old-fashioned versus Agile. Most such reflections, and certainly the discussions surrounding them, are unbelievably misinformed. In this talk I look at how the traditional waterfall cycle is at the foundation of… Read more »

Agile, Scrum, and Earned Value:  Stop Those Divorce Proceedings!

August 13, 2009

There is little doubt that Agile and Scrum techniques have brought much-needed latitude to the management of IT projects. However, when Earned Value Management practitioners hear the words "latitude" and "management" in the same sentence, they automatically think "rubber baseline." Without formal change control over the baseline, Earned Value Management Systems' ability to… Read more »

Extreme Programming: Best Practices, Tradeoffs, and Variants

July 28, 2009

Extreme Programming (XP) is the best known and most widely used of the agile methods that are at the forefront of software methodology discussions today. The practices that comprise XP have been clearly stated for some years, and a variety of case studies have been published discussing the implementation and tailoring of those practices.

The XP practices have been practiced in… Read more »

Scrum in a Nutshell

July 16, 2009

Scrum is about teams producing results in an agile way. Scrum teams achieve results anyway they can by using a simple set of rules to guide effort. We will describe scrum as a simple applied model so that a central understanding of scrum can be built. Other complexities of applied scrum such as scaling, distribution, metrics, etc. will be explored briefly for contextual reference.… Read more »

Scrum Webinar Series - Scrum But

February 20, 2009

Scrum's use is spreading in product companies and engineering organizations. These organizations hope that Scrum will:

Making them more productive
Providing more predictability
Increasing risk management capabilities
Increasing the value of products in the marketplace and systems in the organization
Increasing quality
Improving the morale and pleasure of the developers, product… Read more »

Selling Agile to Upper Management

February 17, 2009

As the Vice President of Product Development, Rich Sheridan transformed his organization by adopting radical co-location and Extreme Programming practices. In this presentation, Rich will share the history of this transformation including the tactics he used in selling this idea to his peers, his CEO, the Board of Directors, and ultimately to his team members. Rich now runs a… Read more »

Scrum and Strategic Project Management, from the Product Vision to Product Results

November 11, 2008

Traditional project management is based on the WBS. The WBS leads to time and effort estimates and ties the project manager to the ground and tactical work. Planning in Scrum is based on the basic idea that the team has to deliver a product increment every couple of weeks. That leads to the effect that we need to base all planning in Scrum on the potential delivery items - not on the time spent on tasks. The result is a planning process that is completely strategic. During this webinar, Boris Gloger will show you how you can use this different approach to run a project.

Agile Distributed Teams and Scrum

October 28, 2008

Working at a distance is now a reality for many of today's work force efforts. We will explore how Scrum, when applied with care, can be used to setup and enable "well formed teams" across distances. Many of today's work force efforts are forced to deal with non-collocated teams and efforts.

How does Scrum work in this context?
Agile methodologies warn how critical it is to… Read more »

Implementing Scrum/PM at EMC Centera

October 14, 2008

EMC Centera has gone through some major changes in the last two years in the way they deliver products. The implementation of Scrum at Centera has gone hand-in-hand with the implementation of a matrix organization.

Implementing Scrum in a Matrix environment presented a number of significant challenges but has ultimately proved to be extremely successful. Centera has been commended… Read more »

Managing Scrum Projects with Agile EVM and Earned Business Value (EBV) Metrics

September 30, 2008

Scrum is a popular project management framework for agile projects. Scrum projects are typically managed quite informally, with the only metrics used being various velocity metrics and burn-down charts. Because these metrics only measure the speed of delivery, not the project's cost or the business value it generates, many project managers are resistant to Scrum. One of the major… Read more »

Big Scrum - Scaling Team to Program

September 23, 2008

The bulk of the widely-published information about Scrum is focused on team-level efforts. As Agile and Scrum adoption rates at mid to large-scale companies expand, they become increasingly main-stream. Experience is showing that Agile methods have much to offer the large program. Establishing a successful Agile program requires an emphasis on creating an environment that is both… Read more »

Being a PMP and an Agile Project Manager—Can You Do Both?

August 26, 2008

This webinar is specifically aimed at traditionally trained software project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the Project Management Institute's (PMI) best practices to their equivalent practices in Agile. As a result of being able to associate many of these new Agile ideas to things that are already familiar, the listener can begin their… Read more »

Overcoming the Pitfalls of Transitioning to Agile Project Management

August 19, 2008

If you've been keeping up with the agile literature, you've likely heard agile approaches to projects described as "common sense." Well, if these approaches are just "common sense," why are they so difficult to try, never mind succeed with them?

There are several pitfalls that project managers stumble on as they transition to agile. In this webinar, Johanna will discuss pitfalls… Read more »