Great morning on Tuesday of this week — I was invited by my good friend and colleague Dr. Dan McQuillan to deliver a half-day training on Agile Project Management to the folks at Make Your Mark here in London. It was really interesting — many of the projects going on there are non-technical and it was the first time I'd presented Agile concepts/methods to a non-technical crowd. We spent the first half of the session talking about Agile basics, principles and practices and the second half discussing how the three might be applied to Make Your Mark projects. It might be difficult for Make Your Mark to release versions of an event iteratively, but we did identify opportunities for them to "institute learning and adaptation" :)
Thanks again for having me, Make Your Mark — I had a great time meeting you and hope to see you all again sometime!
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Hi Rob
That was a rocking workshop.
You'll be glad to know that our Global Team now have a burndown chart (and they're advocating agile methods to other folk at Make Your Mark)
And I'm re-organising our online platform development into sprints based on user stories.
Keep on spreading the meme.
Dan
Posted by: dan mcquillan at June 24, 2008 03:38 PMI *am* glad to know that, Dan - thanks!
And let me know if you need any help re-organising your online platform development project - I highly recommend User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn for some background reading on user stories :)
Posted by: Rob at June 24, 2008 03:55 PM