Projects' Little Helper

Why I started the LAST Mini-conference

Ed — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:44 +0000

LAST Day Melbourne is a one day, low cost, grassroots mini-conference for Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking practitioners. The day will be structured to allow participation and interaction via workshops and activities, rather than death by projector.

Regular readers will remember my writeup about Agile Tour Sydney. That article had a call to action, regarding doing [...]

“Do food”

Ed — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:08:09 +0000

This is about the pattern “Do Food”, that is found in Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Mann’s excellent book Fearless Change.

Our small team had to prepare weekly reports. We hated this job and the wasted meeting time it took each week.

Someone told me that the next meeting was our team [...]

Creating a Product Backlog — Story mapping

Ed — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:00:48 +0000

Story mapping is at the front of my mind for a couple of reasons. The first is because I attended a recent agile meetup (under the auspices of the Melbourne Agile Business Analysts group) that covered the topic.* The second is because I have spent much of last week helping out a new agile team to [...]

Agile Tour Sydney 2011

Ed — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:30:13 +0000

What does Sydney have that Melbourne doesn’t? Well apart from the Bridge and the Opera House, this year Sydney hosted the first Australian instance of the Agile Tour, a series of non-profit, independently organised events held worldwide between October and December. Agile Tour originated in France in 2008 and has [...]

The importance of having “air support”

Ed — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:24:49 +0000

I came across this interesting Xtranormal video created by the folks at UPMentors via David Joyce’s recent blog post “Agile, Lean, and Kanban, Do They Change Management Thinking?”

You can see what UPMentors have to say about it on their blog post that accompanies the video.

I can definitely see echoes of the different scenes [...]