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Author Archives: Andrew Stellman

Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The basic pattern for a Scrum project is simple, which makes it very attractive for teams who want to go agile. And if that were all it took to adopt Scum effectively, we’d all be running great agile teams! But many teams find that they run into trouble with their Scrum adoption, and usually end up with what feels like an “empty” implementation. We explore this in our new talk, Scrum and Self-Organizing Teams: Openness, Courage, Pigs, and Chickens.

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Getting Agile Right

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Last week Jenny and I gave our new talk, Getting Agile Right [pdf], for the first time. We’re really excited, because it also marks our first public announcement of our current book project for  O’Reilly: a new book about agile development and project management. It’s aimed at people preparing for the PMI-ACP certification, but our goal is [...]

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Admitting that you have a problem

Saturday, March 12, 2011

It’s not always easy to recognize when your project is in trouble. Yes, if your project crashes and burns and completely fails to deliver, it’s failed. But sometimes you don’t realize that you’ve  or you’ve built the wrong software and are about to make your users very unhappy. The first step in fixing your project problems is admitting that you have a problem.

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Confessions of a jerk

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The other day I made this short, shameful confession in response to a Slashdot story about a Forbes blog post called When Smart People are Bad Employees. The post outlines three distinct types of bad employees. The third one was called “The Jerk,” and it sounded eerily familiar.

Here’s my confession: I’ve been that jerk in the past.

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Demoralize Your Teams Quickly And Efficiently With Micromanagement

Monday, November 29, 2010

Apparently I’ve earned the dubious distinction of having become an expert in project failure. I’ve always had an interest in project failure—Jenny and I have been doing our “Why Projects Fail” talk for years now, and we’ve talked to many people in many different industries (like in our fourth book, Beautiful Teams) about what’s gone [...]

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