Join our captivating webinar session featuring Nick Fewings as he delves into practical insights from his book, "Team Lead Succeed." By participating in the webinar, you'll access actionable lessons that can be immediately applied to significantly enhance your teamwork. Nick w...

In the ever-evolving landscape of the modern workplace, remote teams have become a cornerstone of organizational success. As companies embrace the flexibility and accessibility that remote work offers, optimizing the productivity and collaboration of remote teams has become a...

Introduction While Agile was once confined to the IT domain in the late nineties, today, a growing number of organizations are embracing Agile practices to enhance their product development, project management, efficiency, and competitiveness. Among the original Agile framewor...

In the last 20 years, as I've assisted organizations in enhancing their agility, a significant portion of my time has been dedicated to consulting, coaching, and training. Throughout the years, I've supported numerous Scrum Masters, team leaders, and project managers. Surprisi...

Agile has grown in popularity in recent years and is now a mainstream way of working in many organisations. This presentation was first delivered during the recession after the financial crisis in 2013. However, in the midst of the greatest recession for over a century, organi...

The demand for Agile Project Management training has steadily increased since its launch in 2010. Organizations are increasingly looking for solutions at the project level to help them manage projects in an agile context, rather than solely focusing on the agile project delive...

agileKRC has created an information pack to help you when attending an AgilePM course (Foundation or Practitioner) and you are looking to pass one, or both, of the Agile PM exams. Setting you up for success In this guide you will find lots of information about the AgilePM exam...

Using agile management approaches such as AgilePM on projects has become very popular in recent years. There are many success stories from organisations who have embraced the new ethos. However, some projects have been more successful than others. This newly updated presentati...

Government agencies are constantly striving to develop software systems that support business objectives, deliver measurable benefits and provide good value for money. To achieve these goals there is a need for project management frameworks that balance governance with agility...

In 2017, on a post on LinkedIn Brian Wernham posted the following question following a conversation he had with some colleagues. “In AgilePM/DSDM, the DSDM ‘Structured Timebox’, increasingly feels like an ‘exam only’ practice. True or false?” By ‘exam only’, the question was a...

Agile is now commonly used in many organisations but most people struggle when the conditions are not in the ideal agile sweet spot of co-location and small teams. In fact, most organisations rarely experience situations that are ideal for agile due to working internationally,...

At agileKRC we regularly get asked about these two frameworks and whether someone should attend either a PRINCE2 Agile course, or an AgilePM course To help you decide, we’ve have put together some guidance that we hope will help people with their decision. Read on to find out...

Introduction I am currently working for several large customers who are trying to improve their agile capability. They are looking to take their agile up a level, having had lots of local successes. They want agile to work in a global context where they are consistent across t...

Introduction to DSDM Agile DSDM (meaning Dynamic Systems Development Method) is often seen as agile’s best kept secret. It has been in existence for over twenty years as various flavours of agile have come and gone. It is now prospering as agile comes of age. This is due to or...

Agile project management is an approach to agile that is ideally used in more complex situations, where the simpler forms of agile have their limitations. Currently, the vast majority of agile is used in a software development environment on an existing set of products. Howeve...

The demand for PRINCE2 Agile courses has steadily increased since its launch in 2015. Along with the upgrade to PRINCE2 in 2017, there seems to be more demand, and more relevance, than ever before, for an internationally recognisable project management framework to work well i...

In a recent webinar, Keith Richards, the Founder of agileKRC and Lead Author and Chief Examiner for Agile Project Management (AgilePM) and DSDM Atern, discussed the MoSCoW prioritization technique and how to use it effectively on projects. The Sketchnote below is by Stuart and...

In this article, Keith Richards, the Founder of agileKRC, and the Lead Author of Agile Project Management (AgilePM) discusses the big flaw of the Fibonacci sequence and how that effects agile estimating using tools such as Planning Poker to estimate story points. Please note:...

Introduction In the late-nineties Agile was still a niche area that mainly existed in the IT domain. Today, however, increasing numbers of organizations are adopting Agile practices as they seek to gain advantages in product development, project management, efficiency and comp...

Note: Since this article was first written, Covid-19 has brought huge changes to working, especially in the richer countries of the world. For millions of highly skilled, white collar staff performing technical roles, working from home has become the norm born out of necessity...

After recently attending the Agile Business Conference, one thing that struck me about the conference was that the attendance figures had increased significantly compared to previous years. The number of people sponsoring the event appeared to have doubled. There was a whole n...

Scrum is by far the most well-known agile approach and has made a dramatic improvement to the way organisations work in order to deliver value to their business units and customers alike. It is conceptually very simple to understand and a lot of Scrum can be picked up very eas...

In 2001 the term ‘agile’ was used to represent a family of lightweight approaches to software development. Over a decade later agile is now mainstream and is changing the way organisations deliver benefits to their customers. Agile is now being used on projects which doesn’t i...

Background The Combat Identification Server (CIDS) Technology Demonstrator Project (TDP) has been delivered to time, quality and budget using the Dynamic Systems Development Methodology (DSDM). [Note: since the time this trial was performed, DSDM has undergone revisions and is...

Over the years of agile training and agile consulting I have done, I have been surprised at the number of agile myths that become so prevalent that they, more or less become facts, whereas they are more akin to being ‘fake news’. Here are just a few statements that are true an...

MoSCoWing requirements on projects allows you to deliver on time by being flexible with your features. To be streetwise with the MoSCoW technique you need to follow some basic rules when prioritizating requirements. In the MoSCoW method, a requirement is either a: Must have Sh...

Over the past 2 decades helping organizations become more agile, I have spent a lot of time consulting, coaching and training. I have helped hundreds of Scrum Masters, team leaders and project managers over the years. And there is one classic mistake I see so often. It’s one I...