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Recommended Agile Project Management Software

September 30th, 2009 Jason No comments

Kelly Waters posted an article recently asking what Agile project management tool folks recommend.  Interesting results so far, but from other discussions I’ve been involved with on Linked In and general conversations with other crazy Agile people most of us recommend no software tool to start with.
It’s MUCH more important for teams to understand how [...]

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The Importance of Time-boxing

August 7th, 2008 Jason No comments

When using Scrum, your iterations are fixed time (1 week, 2 weeks, 30 days etc) and therefore your cost is fixed so the only thing that can vary is scope.  Time-boxing is critical to success when implementing Scrum since you don’t really want to waste a lot of time in useless or long discussions.  Yesterday [...]

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, but here’s some good tools

June 24th, 2008 Jason No comments

One of the Scrum values is the idea of Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools and that doesn’t mean processes and tools have no value, it simply means that Scrum values individuals and interactions more than processes and tools.
The key meaning I picked up from that is your tools and processes should be valuable [...]

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