One of PMI-ACP exam preparation chapters, these slides includes the following: Continuous Improvement Retrospectives Knowledge Sharing Process Tailoring Principles of Systems Thinking (Complex, Adaptive, Chaos) Process Analysis Continuous Improvement Processes Self Assessment Practice Exam Please share your comments. Agile Continuous improvement from Wafi Mohtaseb – PMP®, PMI-ACP
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The first chapter of PMI-ACP exam preparation, these slides includes the following: Why Agile Methods? The Agile Manifesto The Declaration of Interdependence Agile Methods Scrum. Extreme Programming (XP). Feature-Driven Development (FDD). Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM). Crystal Clear Family. Lean Software Development Kanban Development. Practice Exam Please share your comments. PMI-ACP – Agile Framework from […]
Continue readingSoftware Extension to the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition- Exposure Draft
The Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide is now open for public review by PMI. The Exposure Draft of this standard will be open on 10 December 2012 and available until 10 January 2013. I have read most of it so far and it has some interesting content specially the Project/Product Life Cycle. Soon I will be posting some more details. […]
Continue readingAgile Metrics – PM Network Magazine
PM Network Magazine December 2012 issue have published an article about Agile Metrics, the article includes part of my writing along with other Agile experts. Below is a copy from the Magazine, and I will be posting my full article on my blog soon. Please feel free to share your feedback. When it comes to […]
Continue readingProject Scheduling Best Practices
I have been reading the Practice Standard for Scheduling – Second Edition by PMI, I found some useful information I wanted to share, below is a summary of the book: Mainly this book covers Scheduling Methods, Scheduling Techniques, How to create, maintain, and analyze a schedule. So What Is Scheduling and why we need a […]
Continue readingScrum vs. Waterfall
WHAT IS WATERFALL? Waterfall is a classic software development life cycle, which is liner and sequential in nature, it has 5 main phases (Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Test, Release), each of which has its distinct goals. In Waterfall you start the life cycle phases one at a time, each phase output is an input for […]
Continue readingDoes Agile fit in Functional Organizations?
There was an argument between me and a friend of mine, and it was a very hot one. The argue was “Is it possible to apply Agile Methodologies in a Functional Organization?“. I was telling him that with some customization to Agile Processes & commitment from the Senior Management, we can apply Agile in such organizations; definitely it will […]
Continue readingAre you really agile? A free assessment
As Agile methodologies are emerging & taking over these days, everybody in the world is calming that he is Agile! Are you realy Agile?A free assessment for you to benchmark the maturity of your agile practices, Check this out
Continue readingPMI-ACP Study Guide
In this Article: WHY TO APPLY FOR PMI-ACP? FACTS ABOUT THE PMI-ACP EXAM WHAT TO READ & WHAT TOPICS TO FOCUS ON? PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)sm is the newest credential offered by PMI. It was opened for the public at the 31st Jan 2012, the same day I passed the examJ. As all of […]
Continue readingWHAT IS SCRUM? – PART 2
Thanks to International Scrum Institute for their support to the content of this article. In the first part of this article we talked in general about Scrum Framework, and Scrum Roles, in this part we will cover more details about Scrum. I this Article: THE SCRUM PRODUCT BACKLOG SCRUM USER STORIES ESTIMATIONS – PLANNING POKER […]
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