Agile Q&A Panel: The Challenges of Agile Project Management

Adopting and scaling Agile is a challenging and long process. For everyone. That is why we would like to invite you to our free Q&A panel on The Challenges of Agile Project Management. The event is hosted by our experts who have more than 60 years cumulative experience coaching ...

7 Must-have Features When Choosing an Agile Management Tool [Whitepaper]

There is an overabundance of tools on the market today. Some of these tools span across various landscape areas of development processes where some tool choices only target specific areas. “The application development software market will grow modestly through 2015, when it will reach $10.1 billion in revenue. New applications, ...

What to do when team members go dark, aka the problem with “Fine”

We’ve all heard it in our personal relationships, whether it’s a partner, parent, or child.  You ask a question, and the dreaded answer comes – “Fine”.  What’s wrong with that answer, you ask?  It’s not the word.  It’s the deep ambiguity behind it.  What I have learned in 15 years ...

Improve Team Dynamics with the xView People Status Dashboard

In my last blog post, I introduced you to our new HTML 5 based xView extension to TeamPulse and specifically wrote about the Project Status view. In this post, I’ll go into further detail about the People Status view. People Status xView The goal of this xView is to ...

Introducing the New Cross-project Dashboard - TeamPulse xView

As the TeamPulse product owner, I'm pleased to introduce our new HTML 5 based TeamPulse extension we call xView. Our goal for these features is to provide users with a single location to get a view of data across multiple projects. I'm fortunate to spend the majority of my time ...

At a Single Glance - Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics

At a single glance. That’s what it should take to know when something isn’t right on your projects. Knowing that something is wrong with your project should be as easy as glancing at a visual indicator. You shouldn’t have to interpret anything. You shouldn’t have to be an expert in ...

[Podcast] Getting Started with Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte

In this episode, I speak with Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte on how they got started down the path of agile. Joel’s focus on the people in the software development led to many process improvements that paralleled many of the other early adopted of agile. Stephen found his path to ...

Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all

Imagine the scene.  You are starting a new project.  At the kickoff meeting the stakeholder introduces the mission of the project, the business analyst hands out the requirements document, the project manager hands out the project plan, and the development manager gives his best “Do it for the Gipper” speech.  ...