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Product Owner/Scrum Master hats on the same human

June 6, 2015

Agile, Leadership, Project Management, Scrum

This post is inspired by a question asked in another post which was something like “Can a Scrum Master and Product Owner be the same person on one project?” I thought that was an excellent question and a challenge faced by many organizations deciding to try out Scrum When we started doing Scrum for internal…

Email: Let the punishment fit the crime

June 5, 2015

sthompson

Agile, Collaboration, Email, Performance, Project Management, Simplicity

So, I hate email. Love of Agility is part of it. Even though our company does all internal communication on a collaboration platform, I still have to spend 10 percent of my day going through spam or hunting for content sent from customers, vendors or other important external humans in email because this is not…

Psychology of Checklists

May 28, 2015

sthompson

Agile, Checklists, Collaboration, Email, Performance, Project Management

Checklists in the Cloud (shameless Ad for ChecklistAnywhere.com but won’t say any more about that for now) as a concept is really cool not just for the simplicity in usage or ease of access but, for the psychology of getting work done. From an owner or biz manager perspective it’s beautiful because owners are interested…

Agile vs Agile (slight rant)

May 28, 2015

sthompson

Agile, Checklists, Collaboration, Performance, Project Management, Simplicity

Having done some form of Agile Project Management and development since the late 90’s, I’ve been through the hype of xP and the project management methodologies (scrum, scrum but, kanban…). I’ve seen things which have yielded amazing results and stuff which had poor results. I’m inspired to write this little rant due to frustration with…

Checklists in the Cloud vs Project Management Software

April 28, 2015

Blue Collar

Agile, Checklists, Collaboration, Performance, Project Management, Simplicity

Checklists, Collaboration

So let’s start this piece by asking the question, What is a Project? The Project Management Institute defines a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result”. They go further to say that “… development of software for an improved business process, the construction of a building or bridge,…

Experience Report: Using Agile (Scrum) to Manage a Business Team

April 28, 2015

Blue Collar

Collaboration

Why did we use Agile (Scrum) to manage our business We happened to be a software company and experts at Agile software development practices (at least the R&D portion of the company was). The beauty of the Agile approach, Scrum in particular, is that it addressed the following universal management challenges: Ability to establish high…

Blue Collar Objects History

April 24, 2015

Blue Collar

Company

Blue Collar Objects

Quick Company History Blue Collar Objects was formed to create an ecosystem where talented individuals or business entities could come together for mutual benefits though they might be geographically dispersed. Over the years, we’ve evolved Agile management techniques and developed software to enable us to execute our initial motivation for forming a company. Our vision…