State of Agile w Alan Bustamante

Alan Bustamante is active in the Agile Communities and plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and Read More …

A Stack of Agile Transcriptions

A few of the Agile Discussions without including Kanban. I have a separate Stack for Kanban.  This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Agile without Kanban A collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that centered on applying Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints to the Supply Read More …

Agile Project Management: Highsmith A3

One of the best books I have read and certainly the one that has influenced me the most on Agile Project Management is Jim Highsmith’s book of the same name. I have referenced his material for many years on this blog. We are not short of Project Management books and Agile books, in general, but Read More …

The 3 Legs of an Agile Business Practice

An Agile Business must have three pillars to stand on Process Agility, Technical Agility, and Personal Agility, says Patrick Waara of ResponseAgility. Patrick was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, certified ScrumMaster, Read More …

Is Agile Project Management the Same Outside of Software?

I asked Evan Leybourn this question. Evan pioneered the field of Agile Business Management; applying the successful concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate management. He keeps busy as a senior IT executive, business management consultant, non-executive director, conference speaker, internationally published author and father. Evan Leybourn: That’s a surprisingly hard question to answer. Read More …