Tag: agility

Leading Projects in Turbulent Times – interview with Ricardo Vargas

During the 11th International PMI Poland Chapter Congress you gave a speech titled “Leading Projects in Turbulent Times”. Why did you choose this topic?  I decided to talk about leadership in this moment because I think this is one of the things that are missing most of the time when we are leading. We usually tend to see this turbulence as an external factor that we have no control over. But in reality we can make a very proactive approach when we are talking about leadership in this kind of projects, so you can change the way you plan, you can change the way you behave in order to address this turbulence. 

Agile misconceptions. No documentation, no processes, no plans – is that Agile? – interview with Thomas Zimmermann

Interview with Thomas Zimmermann by Monika Zofia Potiopa There are still many misconceptions about Agile, such as it meaning no documentation, no processes or no plans. What steps do you think we can take to eliminate these misconceptions? At the end of the day, if you talk about Agile and particularly Scrum, you of course have documentation. Consider a list of user stories, which is essentially another way of doc¬umenting what you want to do. It is a comon misconception to say that there is no specification. Correct – there is no specification in the form of a traditional document. Instead the same content is represented in a different, but much more effective way, i.e. as a prioritized list of user stories.

Re.vers.ify Organizations with Scrum – interview with Gunther Verheyen

An interview with Gunther Verheyen by Paulina Szczepaniak You are a renowned international agile expert, with particular expertise in Scrum. Why do you think this framework became so popular? Probably because of the growing need of what I like to call “agility”, meaning flexibil¬ity, responsiveness, and not just from an IT perspective. IT is where agile sort of emerged from, but companies have to survive and thrive in very turbulent markets, a lot of business changes, market competition, but also internal changes, stakeholders and so on. And the way that organizations are struc¬tured and therefore how they organize their IT work and their software development, because that follows from the way they are structured, is just not fit for the agility re¬quired today to thrive and prosper. Structures are very rigid, very fixed, and need to become more dynamic.