I apologize for the delay in posting this presentation. Here is the third, and final presentation we offered at the Mass Bay Professional day on May 2nd. Presented by Giora Morein, it is focused on the challenges an organization faces as they try to grow an Agile initiative beyond a single team.

You can view the presentation here

This Saturday, Giora and I were invited to speak at the Massachusetts Bay PMI Chapter’s professional day. Thanks to everyone who contributed to a great dialog about Agile and project management. I have included the two of the presentations we went through and hopefully we’ll have the 3rd one out shortly.

This Friday I had the opportunity to speak at the Southern New England Chapter of the PMI. I would like to thank the chapter for the invitation and everyone attending my session for the lively discussion. I have posted the slides for any who may be interested.

There is a lot going around about success in Scrum these days.  Talks on ScrumButt,(or ScrumBut); long threads about how long it takes; presentations on what is involved.  Yet I wonder how these folks can talk this way.  In my humble opinion to declare that you are successful at being Agile or doing Scrum is to admit that you don’t grasp the essence of Agility.
Maybe I am wrong, after all I put my pants on just like everyone else and just like them I periodically forget to zip up.  Could be one of us has that problem.
So to be transparent, What I have been teaching, coaching, leading, and doing the past 10 years is getting people to stop thinking about this as a goal to attain and to start accepting that it is a way of getting things done, better each time.
Is this a copout in that I never have to say my teams FAILED?  Nope.  It means that if you did good today, you were better than you were yesterday and now you have to do something else to be successful tomorrow. Lots of days you don’t get there but you do learn what doesn’t work. So if I understand the ScrumButters’ metrics, most of what I do is fail, but then again I have tomorrow to change things and get better than I was.

Here is what I measure. more »