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I’ll Pet Him and Squeeze Him and Call Him Agile
Posted by David Bland in agile, project management, tools on July 14, 2009
I’ve read through Scott Ambler’s IBM blog about the Agile Process Maturity Model several times, and his points are lost on me. His over engineered solution is the antithesis of agile. I do find some comfort that Kent Beck, Dave Thomas and others are not blindly adopting it either. IBM seems to be posturing for [...]
Cut the MS Project Cord Already
Posted by David Bland in agile, tools on May 22, 2009
In a recent discussion over on the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com Blog, I raised my concerns about the mind boggling need for expert MS Project skills in Agile/Scrum job postings. Laszlo Szalvay’s response was an enlightening one: I think of the top 3 agile tools on the market (v1, scrumworks and rally) only ScrumWorks does not have a [...]
