Agile Bench at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia

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Agile Bench at Microsoft’s Tech Ed AustraliaAgile Bench, Conference

by Mark Mansour on November 2, 2012 with 0 comments

MYOB‘s Simon Raik-Allen and Aidan Casey built a distributed Pong implementation using Node.js for Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia conference keynote. Tech Republic’s Upsite has a podcast detailing how they built it and mentioned how the used Agile Bench to keep themselves on track (at 9:20 seconds remaining). About Mark MansourMark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Are you still using Email to run your project!?

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Are you still using Email to run your project!?Agile, Agile Bench

by Mark Mansour on June 22, 2012 with 0 comments

Max and Kit are being to subjected to project management via email.  Sure you can make it work if you force it, but why would you? Full Article About Mark MansourMark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.Mail …

About Mark Mansour

Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Better agile planning with projected iterations

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Better agile planning with projected iterationsAgile, Agile Bench

by Mark Mansour on April 13, 2012 with 0 comments

We see a lot of deep backlogs. Teams that practice agile planning usually have a well groomed backlog towards the top and the bottom of the backlog is, well, closer to a list of ideas than actual stories. But that’s ok! Project planners (like the CEO of a small company, the product manager or technical lead) …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Agile teams need to iterate

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Agile teams need to iterateAgile

by Mark Mansour on October 4, 2011 with 0 comments

In the previous post I wrote about how trust was key to getting the most from your agile teams.  In this post we’ll continue looking through the Lieutenant Commander’s finding from his paper “Communicating Intent and Imparting Presence“. The Lieutenant Commander ran and experiment to test the doctrine of the Commander’s Intent.  The iterative approach …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Agile Teams need to be trusted

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Agile Teams need to be trustedAgile

by Mark Mansour on September 27, 2011 with 4 comments

A highly complex and uncertain environment requires decision making to be distributed to the team so that teams can dynamically adapt to new situations

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Agile Project Management

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Agile Project ManagementAgile

by Mark Mansour on January 24, 2011 with 1 comments

Agile Project Management is a peculiar phrase. Many people on project teams, mainly people in delivery roles, believe that traditional project management approaches and agile practices do not play well together. The argument goes that if you have a plan, then you’ve decided what to do. If you’ve decided what to do then you are …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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