Individuals and Interactions : diving deep on the “Agile Values”
It turns out during a global pandemic you have more time to sit and think about things. The time spent commuting, or breaking for coffee, or riding up elevators, or switching gears to talk to a coworker about their dogs is now freed up to spend on other things. (I originally wrote ‘freed up to *do* other things’ but if I’m honest I find myself not doing much of anything these days.)
In the first weeks I spent an inordinate amount of time checking covid-19 dashboards. I’ve sense turned to streaming decades-old baseball games.
All of this to say, I haven’t been very productive with my newfound free-time.
Good for me I’ve procrastinated on more than one professional project. And no matter how long this current pace of life lasts, I have work to keep me busy.
How does the Agile Manifestor apply to actual project work?
I recently started work as a software project manager, working in a medium-sized SaaS company in Austin. It is largely focused on delivering internal change management projects related to a recent merger. My first project was big and hairy, one that requires the PM to go across multiple functions, moderate competing team requirements, and quarterback a lengthy project schedule with…
