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10 Years Agile – a perspective from outside the room
Recently Alistair Cockburn invited 32 agile practitioners to join him at the Snowbird ski resort, for a retrospective on the agile movement as a whole. I followed the event via Twitter, sitting under a sun umbrella here in the southern hemisphere, reading the tweets from the snow.
The event was … Read more
Rules of the Green Line
I draw usually draw Earned Value charts with the cost (AC) line in red, and the progress (EV) line in green. In this post, I’m going to outline some basic rules for getting a good “green line”. The recommendations in this post are for people doing “lite” Earned Value as … Read more
Programming Languages for Kids – time to go mobile
At the BarCamp following the NZCS 50th Anniversary Conference, there was an interesting discussion on programming languages for kids. It was suggested that the key players ( Phrogram, Small Basic, Scratch etc) don’t get it quite right. That rings true to me. Reflecting on this after the … Read more
Earned Value in a Nutshell
I’ve been looking for a way to describe the “essence” of Earned Value Management (EVM). How can I describe the core of what EVM is about – without resorting to an impenetrable jungle of acronyms?
This is particularly important when describing it to people outside EVM’s traditional strongholds of defense … Read more