Resources
Articles
Dec 30, 2010
How Far We’ve Come
At the start of a new year, Michele Sliger looks back across the recent decades of information technology advancement—from the dawn of the personal computer to the abundance of social networking websites—and (with some pointers from Ron Jeffries and Linda Rising) ponders how those advances have impacted our view of change, software, and ourselves.
Nov 01, 2010
Agile Light Bulb Moments
Many of us have our personal identities wrapped up in our jobs, which can make change hard, particularly in agile environments. Recognizing the power of storytelling, Michele Sliger started collecting first-person stories about how adopting agile affected individuals and what their "light bulb moment" was like. Find out how agile adoptions have changed individuals—their perceptions of agile, their leadership styles, and even their personal lives.
Jun 01, 2010
Selling Agile: How to Respond to Concerns from Management, the Business, and the Team
This is a white paper excerpted from Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick's book The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility.
Presentations
Values: The Key to Agile Success
How values drive behaviors, and their importance in agile success.
Intro to Agile Project Management
A brief overview of agile for PMI members, with a mapping of some PMBOK practices to their cousins in agile.
Intro to Scrum
A brief overview of Scrum: what it is, what it looks like in action, how to get started.
Podcasts/Video
Scrum Team Removes Impediment
A melodrama/silent film parody complete with monkey impersonation and guest starring the Managing Director of the Scrum Alliance
High Moon Studios: A Portrait – Scrum
A gaming company with a great sense of humor adopts Scrum.
There’s No Crying in Retrospectives!
Agile Rule -- a parody of the "man rule" beer commercials.