Many organizations today have adopted Scrum, Kanban, XP and other agile frameworks and practices. It does not matter if you are a developer, tester, interaction designer, project or product manger, the chances are really high that you have already been hit by the agile or will be hit pretty soon.

Achieving to setup a well working Kanban Team is one thing. Executing a big project with 20 person-years of effort and 10+ teams working simultaneously is something different. This video shows how the Xing team did that, being able to sleep well the nights before and after the launch and what they learned for the future.

This short video discusses New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) virtual IT Project Management Office (PMO), the importance of executive sponsorship, the role NYCHA’s PMO played in partnering with the business, risk mitigation best practices and metrics used to evaluate the success of the NYCHA IT PMO.

What do Lean, Kanban, Jazz and Origami have in common… and where do they differ? In this presentation I will talk about important aspects of Lean and Kanban that I consider to be key to their success and to be what sets them apart form other approaches and methodologies such as Agile and Scrum, yet could be easily ignored.

There are a lot of different situations in software projects with distributed teams. You can seen both successful and disastrous projects in terms of the ways communication and coordination was designed. People can be pretty much on the same page in terms of project goals while seating in different offices and in different countries. You can also witness people being completely off the track, suffering and losing motivation. Based on experience, this video tries to explains what make some projects good places to be and some not.