In my last article I used a home made leadership model to look leadership in a self-managed (agile) team. I then used this as a basis to look briefly at how project managers might help or hinder an agile team. Here I take that concept a step further by looking at how people use project… Continue reading Agile project management patterns
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Leadership and project management in a typical agile team
In my last article I claimed that you can have an agile project manager who ran agile projects. But the projects I described did not involve "typical" agile teams. So now I want to show that a project manager can work well with a typical agile team. Let me start with a simple question Can… Continue reading Leadership and project management in a typical agile team
True confessions. I was an agile project manager
I was once an agile project manager. In fact I did it more than once. If that is not shocking enough then maybe I should also confess that I have coached, trained and enabled others to be agile project managers. In this article I will share my experience of being an agile PM without a… Continue reading True confessions. I was an agile project manager
The problem with project managers and product based thinking
Once upon a time I used to run projects. To be honest I am probably a better BA than a PM, but I have run quite a few projects and my projects always seemed to come through OK. So when I encountered agile projects with product owners on them, I was pretty relaxed. I had… Continue reading The problem with project managers and product based thinking
James King 