Having written a fair bit recently about Agile/Scrum, I found the following post provided an interesting perspective. The Agile Disease by Luke Halliwell I don’t agree with everything the Luke [ … ]
Category: Culture
A 5th element for the Agile Manifesto
Robert Martin gave a keynote at the Agile 2008 conference. Entitled Quintessence, he talked about adding a 5th element to the Agile Manifesto. His suggestion was: Craftsmanship over Crap After [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – A Success
Today, we held the first ProductCamp Toronto downtown at the Ted Rogers School of Business. About 100 people showed up in the morning to listen and participate. Some of them [ … ]
Is Product Management Agile?
There’s a lot of talk about Agile Product Management these days, and for obvious reasons. The thinking is that because of Agile development, Product Managers need to change how they [ … ]
The value of Scrum
Richard from AgileCommons.org left an interesting comment to one of my Agile/Scrum/PM posts that I think is worth discussing. I agree with some of what he said, but of course, [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 4)
So, here it is, finally, part 4 of this series. Sorry for the gap since part 3 (and 3a), but work and life have a habit of keeping me busy. [ … ]
Obama / McCain debate: long on features, short on positioning
Like many of you I watched the US Presidential Debate on Tuesday night. The night before that I watched a re-run on YouTube of the first debate last month. What [ … ]
Agile/Scrum – Reality Check
I’ve written a number of posts of late (1, 2, 3, 3a) on the topic of Agile/Scrum and Product Management. My goal was to discuss some of the issues I [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 3a)
Chris posted the following comment to Part 3 of this series. Look forward to pt. 4, because so far pt. 3 has done little to bring clarity to the issue. [ … ]
Agile/Scrum and Product Management (part 3)
Continuing from part 2 of this series, I want to respond to one of the comments that was posted by a reader. James Peckham commented: Why wouldn’t you have your [ … ]