I’m at the Agile Business Conference today and tomorrow, presenting the NPWD Case Study. I will be blogging on interesting stuff from other presentations.

Interestingly I spent most of today chatting rather than watching presentations. However I did catch Rob Thomsett’s highly entertaining and informative presentation on implementing agile. One of the interesting little snippets he gave are the “sliders” below.

They can be used as key indicators to calibrate how people feel about a project and how it should / is being run.

One of the other re-current themes is the thorny issue of “collaborative procurement” which I have blogged on before.  One of the key challenges in implementing agile methods is the fact that all of them require effective collaboration to be successful.  This is relatively easy to achieve inside an organisation (yes, really if there is a will to) the problem comes in when the organisation brings in external third parties e.g. software developers.  At this point company rules about procurement cut in and these rules are nearly always confrontational and assume a lack of trust; not a good start to any collaboration.