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Command and Control is a Good Thing
Command and Control – that’s what I want to talk about today. This term that agile people or anybody floating around in management circles these days about command and control is a negative leadership style.
Agile Project Managers in Illinois this Tuesday Night
This coming Tuesday night, April 27th, I'll be presenting at the Illinois Regional Agile Users Group in Bloomington, Illinois. I will be continuing my series on "What is an Agile Project Manager Anyway?", where we deep dive on the role of an Agile Project Manager on...
Scrum Certification for Omaha Project Managers
After such a great experience at the Infotec conference last week in Omaha, I’ve committed to go back next month to teach a special edition of “Certified ScrumMaster for Project Managersâ€. Granted, this will be similar to my other 2-day certification classes in...
A Tale of Two Teams
This month's PM Network Magazine features the latest installment of my "Agile Project Manager" column. You can read the column here (PMI Login Required). But In case you don't have a PMI membership login, I'm posting the column below: One team flounders in the best of...
An IT Wonderland in Omaha
Last week I attended the Infotec 2010 conference in Omaha, NE and had quite the time meeting with IT professionals and talking about leadership and management challenges. The conference featured several vendors, including Cox, Microsoft, and Google. The facility was...
Scrum Certification for DC Project Managers
I'm thrilled to announce that Excella will be hosting its very first public Certified ScrumMaster course in the Washington DC area. We'll be hosting the class in Rockville, right on the red line. I'm still negotiating with a couple candiate venues to ensure the best...
Video now available for the PMI Agile story
Check it out: InfoQ has posted the video recording of my Agile 2009 presentation "Growing PMI Using Agile". The video is 38 minutes long, but tells the story of how a group of PMI volunteers used iterative, incremental techniques to build a new community within PMI...
Come Hear The PMI Agile Story At Infotec 2010
Next month, I'll be speaking at Infotec 2010, the largest IT conference in the Mid West. The conference features no less than 8 tracks, including information assurance, cloud computing, and such. My talk will be part of the project management track, organized by the...
Scrum Gathering Turns Into Free For All
Day 3 of the Scrum Gathering this week was a fascinating experience. The day’s events were run in “Open Space†format, where the agenda was completely self-organized by the conference attendees. First, everyone was invited to post their suggestions for a topic...
Scrum Gathering Collides with Project Management
Yesterday was day 2 at the annual North American Scrum Gathering (click here for the events from day 1). The day featured several tracks covering a broad array of topics: The Edge of Chaos (innovation, risk, cunning...) Host: Jimi Fosdick Huge Scrum! (Massive...
Orlando Scrum Gathering Kicks Off With A Bang #sgus
This week marks the annual North American Scrum Gathering in Orlando. This year’s event promises to be very dynamic, with a track dedicated to project management as well as several Pecha Kucha talks. Day Zero But before the festivities even began, Mike Vizdos and...
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