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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…