Project Agility

Empowered Developers: Strength to Your User Persona!

by Summer Fabian

Agile principles put the power of quality and the definition of ‘enough’ in the hands of developers. Yes, the Product Owner and Stakeholders get final say, but the best way to optimize your developers’ strength is to give them the …

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Asking a Consultant for Agile – Check Yourself for Success

by Summer Fabian

When asking a consultant if they can run a project with Agile there are assumptions on both sides that will make or break satisfaction. In my experience, these factors have the most impact when entering into an agile consultant partnership …

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User Stories? I Have No Users!

by Summer Fabian

Innovation teams are often small, multifunctional crews tasked with constant prototyping.  Being open, communicative types, they find Agile useful for most projects.  Those teams often encounter a common prototyping pain point: Who writes user stories when we don’t have any …

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Huboard: A Kanban board for GitHub

by Summer Fabian

Agile development teams using GitHub repositories usually have work in two places, as issues or defects in their github repositories and as user stories and epics in their agile work management tool. Often a plugin or bridge is used to …

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Social Media Governance in Regulated Industries Part 4: Local Procedures

by Summer Fabian

Many social media projects face the trailblazers conundrum. None of their company’s policies or procedures was written with social media or community networking in mind.  Best practices are rare and guidance from corporate governance is nearly nonexistent.  You face the …

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