I have moved my blog and am in the process of porting over the content on MSDN blogs. See my new space on the web at http://www.mitchlacey.com or http://www.adoptagile.com -Mitch

I am writing a paper for the 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta on Agile Transition. Part of the paper covers the Agile Manifesto. As I began researching and writing about it, I found that I had gaps in the historical data on the web. I was fortunate...

I was watching the Chiefs - Seahawks football game last Sunday when it hit me. Ideal days do not exist. Damon Huard was starting for the injured Trent Green for the Kansas City Chiefs. Huard was playing with an injured hamstring and sat out most of...

One of the things I love about XP (this is a principle of Scrum also) is the concept of Sustainable Pace. Ron Jeffries aptly documents this on his site in the following text: Extreme Programming teams are in it for the long term. They work hard, and at...

I was reading Mini Microsoft for the second time tonight (I've really never read it) when I came across a post titled Dev vs Test vs PM . This snipped from the post got me thinking - why would I want to work together with someone when I get rewarded for...

Friend and colleague Brad Wilson defines Scrummerfall as Scrummerfall . n. The practice of combining Scrum and Waterfall so as to ensure failure at a much faster rate than you had with Waterfall alone. Which gets us to our story. I was having an email...

There was a post on the Scrum yahoogroup if folks encountered resistance from the company and how they got around it. This is a common theme - here is my experience from my first Agile project: Let me see if I can quote the developers that are now on...

Change is difficult, stressful and rewarding when you are open to it. Personally, I love change, in moderation. When I coach teams, I ask them what they want to get out of the experience, and where they want to be in 6 months. A common response is "we...

I was chatting with Mike Cohn last summer at Agile 2005 about user stories. He told me how he applies some of these techniques to his kids. This got me thinking - what is important to me, as a parent, when it comes to my kids homework. I want to...