Jurgen Appelo on agile project management and software development

Some of you readers may already know that i work as an interface between the competent departments and the development teams. I act as the lead of these teams and communicate the functional requirements of the clients and the internal departments to the technical personnel such as developers, system engineers etc. Vice-versa i communicate the open questions of the technical teams to all other parties and enforce problem solving remedies to keep the development on track. My function is called “Technical Project Manager.” In this role i constantly try to adopt new project management principles and further my knowledge of software development practices.

One common method to stumble about when you’re faced with software project management is the agile management principle. Some of its well known instances are Scrum (which i use) and Extreme Programming (which i don’t). But agile management is not just about a specific implementation, its about the way we work. Jurgen Appelo of NOOP.nl embraced most of the agile paradigms and how they might influence our work into one well done presentation. Here’s the video of his talk at the Agile Eastern Europe Conference in Kiev:

The slides themself are noteworthy too. Fetch them at Slideshare:

Overall an excellent talk on the agile approach and its impact on every day work life. Definatly worth watching!

(via Projektmanagement Blog, in German)