Many thanks to the people who attended this presentation. Their comments and observations were very good and helpful. Getting this type of feedback is great!. You can download a copy from this location.  The impact of Agile Architect Teams in Scaling Enterprise Efforts

Thanks to everyone who came to see my presentation at the Agile 2009 Conference. Here is a link to the slides for anyone wishing to get a copy: http://www.bigvisible.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Loss-Aversion-Slides.pdf.

George and I presented our Agile Battlemapping presentation at the Agile2009 conference.  I had an absolutely fantastic time and based on the feedback we received from the audience, it appeared that everyone else had a good time too.  This was the first time we had added the practical exercises.  First the audience members individually drew battlemaps of their own projects or programs followed and then they combined into groups to create prioritized response strategies.  I look forward to making further enhancements and to the next time we present it.  Click below do download a PDF of the presentation.

Agile 2009: Mapping the Change Battlefied

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.

I’ve been asked recently to post the Standalone Iteration Tracking Spreadsheet that I created a few years back – and I finally got around to it.  This spreadsheet was first part of a bigger tool that supported backlog management, release reporting, feature tracking etc.  It became incredibly difficult to maintain so I decided to pull key pieces out and made them independent.  This Iteration or Sprint Tracker is intended to be used by ScrumMasters or Project Managers.  It was never intended to be used by the entire team (though you absolutely can) but rather provide a way for the ScrumMaster to actively track task progress and generate real-time reports and diagnostics.  You will see that it provides far more than the simple traditional burndown.  Along with the Advanced Burn-up it also shows the Category Burn-down.  The Category Burndown is intended to show visibility into the progress of specific categories of task – to identify bottlenecks or constraints. more »

Event: Israel Scrum User Group, December 2008
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Presenter: Giora Morein

This is the Scrum Introduction presentation I presented at the first Scrum Israel User Group.

Download the Introduction to Scrum