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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.

We’ve re-branded as you can probably see. How do you like it?

After blogging on the topic of virtual teams (below), I noticed this post on the topic on Gantthead.com.  I’ve also PDFed it so you can download it here (Part time teams; full time projects)

I’m not sure I agree with everything he says, but it is a useful contribution to the topic.

All of Kubernetes’ work involves virtual teams and these are virtual both in the organisational sense i.e. drawn from across the clients’ operation and in the physical sense i.e. in many locations. This means that, by default, we have gained a lot of experience in managing projects “remotely”.

A couple of recent experiences have shown us how much we have learnt without actually realising it!  Without going into details this includes:-

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As I mention in the post below we are looking at re-branding Kubernetes and re-vamping the website.  During the process we will be prototyping ideas using the current format which may make the site look a bit odd and more difficult to use.  Bear with us and watch this space……