Piers is an Agile Delivery Manager at the Skills Funding Agency
From time to time, when working with other teams on a project, priorities don’t always align. Although your team’s project is clearly the top of your agenda, other teams may have larger remits and your project is not deemed as …
Last week I attended the Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Master course and passed. It was a useful couple of days. I've been practising Scrum and Agile processes for a while now, so not everything on the course was new to me, but …
My project is coming to an end and we are having to extend a further couple of sprints to meet the MVP (minimum viable product).
Back in January, I started a secondment as a Delivery Manager. Here’s a little note to update you all on my progress. I know I haven’t blogged in little while, there was a period of purdah and some personal holiday …
Last week I attended a Certified Agile Tester (CAT) course. Testing is not an area I'm too involved in, but it gave me a lot of extra detail on Agile ways of working and firmed up my current knowledge. The course …
As part of continuous improvement within Agile teams, retrospectives are held at the end of each sprint. In these meetings we get a chance to discuss what went well and badly, and agree some actions needed to improve things. I …
Earlier this week I was made aware that a Project Manager working on an Agile project was having problems with completing / projecting a Burn Up chart. I was asked if I could do some research and find a simple …
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 far. We're currently nearing the end of the Discovery phrase, where we research …
At this early stage of the project, there are some days I feel I make little progress in terms of documentation, but a lot of progress in terms of getting people introduced and able to work together, which is one of the main principles of Agile.
A little bit about me… I’m Piers, and I’ve been working for the Skills Funding Agency for over nine years. In that time I’ve have various roles including: Project Administration, Contract Management, Finance, Junior Business Analyst and Agile Business Analyst. …