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Book on Project Management using Scrum - #1 Bestseller in Amazon Spain
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Agile 101: Scrum’s sprint 0 and the initial design
Sometimes we’re in projects in which we need to prepare a large number of things before starting out. Can we start building without stopping to plan or analyse what we’re about to do? When we read about Scrum, we get … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum for fixed-price projects
One of the most common questions we ask when we’re wondering whether we should adopt a methodology like Scrum is how to face the fixed-price contracts that are so common in public procurement and many other sectors. One of the … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum in a maintenance project
There is a common doubt among those considering using Agile methodologies to manage a project: would it be possible to apply Scrum to projects where, on top of the upcoming and planned tasks, there are frequent interruptions to solve maintenance … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: How to write an Agile book
Yes, you can also write a book in an Agile manner. Not only software can be created this way. All these Agile things can be applied to a myriad of fields, not only to technology. In this chapter I will … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Scrum’s advantages
Scrum pros and cons: blue pill, red pill I don’t want to become one of those Agile evangelists, preaching everywhere about how good and modern it is to be agile. But now that we’ve discussed the disadvantages of Scrum, we … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum pros & cons
“There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things.” Machiavelli Disadvantages of using Scrum How many technologies have quickly popped up and then vanished even quicker? They … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Requirements might change
A few years ago, before completely applying this whole Agile thing, I worked in the development of a web application that should manage the client’s worksheets through a series of steps, a wizard that would lead users through the phase … Sigue leyendo
New chapter from book Agile 101: Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
Nearly 15 years ago, in 2001, 17 software developers met in Utah. They were critical of the then popular software-development models, which they considered rigid or heavy. That meeting included people like Kent Beck, Martin Fowler or the Scrum founders. … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book
Pretty soon my first book on Agility will be also available in a new English edition. You will be able to find there same contents and same topics that were addressed at the Spanish edition or that you can find … Sigue leyendo
5 Lessons learned in Project Management
Whenever I finish a project I try to have a look at what went wrong, what worked as a charm, and what I tried but it didn’t work out. Even when I get a final negative balance, the project may … Sigue leyendo
SCRUM Pros and Cons
If you are considering SCRUM as a working method but you do not know very well what SCRUM is all about. You’ve heard a lot of people talking about the benefits of this system but, how many technologies and techniques … Sigue leyendo
IV Conference on Sustainability
Last Thursday I had the honor of giving a presentation on Phase 2 of the Canary Islands Waste Information System (GUIRRE) at the Fourth Conference on Sustainability inside the activities for the World Environment Day. GUIRRE is a very special … Sigue leyendo
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More about estimations
When talking about estimations ysing Agile techniques, there are certain things that are hard to accept for those who, for a few years, have already been planning and calculating times and dates. We can find many planning techniques Agile: Planning … Sigue leyendo
My communication at the V Conference on Sustainability in the Canaries
A few weeks ago, the Canary Islands Department of Environment was kind enough to invite me to give a talk at the V Canary Sustainability Conference in held on Thursday October 3. My paper was on the Waste Information System … Sigue leyendo
Keep it Simple, Stupid
Recently, after a conversation with a professional colleague on the current IT world, something reminded me of a Andres Diplotti cartoon I saw first time in Google+: As a programmer I have been for a long time, and partly still I … Sigue leyendo