Positivity breeds positivity
...have larger remits and your project is not deemed as important. Although we all work for the same organisation, teams can sometimes be protective of their staff and capacity. Throughout...
Piers Dunstall
Piers is an Agile Delivery Manager at the Skills Funding Agency
Becoming a Certified Scrum Master
...now, so not everything on the course was new to me, but it was still great to firm up on what I thought was right. The course was also provided...
Slightly behind schedule, but can Agile always be 100% on track?
...a project may finished early in the eyes of the business, but that could just be a way of sugar coating the actual truth? I've read about calculating the best...
Delivery Manager diary: I got the job
...that secondments are ideal and can work well within the civil service. I have found that support always seems to be there. I shall do my best to log regularly...
Am I a CAT? (Certified Agile Tester)
...feel that examinations like this seem a little backwards nowadays, not least because many of us type faster than we can write! I also felt an Agile course should be...
A retrospective, retrospective - what should be covered?
...retrospective template and shared it with the team via the team site. I have previously used a similar approach to this known as Glad - Mad - Sad and the...
Can an Agile tool have too many features?
...help, people new to the processes. The tool I favoured was from a website called Agile Velocity. I decided to simplify this tool to use three tabs: A data tab...
What must you have to enter Alpha?
I’m a Delivery Manager at the Skills Funding Agency. This is a new role for me and you can read some of my other blog posts about my experience so...
Delivery Manager Diary - moving through discovery
...also plan to run Trello boards for the alpha and beta phases of the project to track development progress. My question for you is: are we missing anything? Our team...
Agile Delivery Manager Diary
...month secondment. I am writing this blog to track my journey in my new role, and as a way to ask the wider GOV.UK community to offer help and advice!...