Over time the Project Management community has strived to build repeatability and predictability in project delivery for organizations. In doing so many of theses Project Management Offices have created an environment filled with the stench of control, process and inefficiency. So how did a movement with such good intent transition to being a burden in [...]

Much fun was had at the March 19th meeting.  Tanya Snook & Ellen Grove gave a great presentation on Hacking (slides here; text of Tanya’s original talk here).  After the presentation, a spontaeneous games session broke out – we had a rock paper scissors match, then played some Loserball! and “Yes,and…”. The next Agile Ottawa [...]

I found a fantastic line in the Wikipedia definition of “hacker”:”Hacking entails some form of excellence, for example exploring the limits of what is possible, thereby doing something exciting and meaningful. Activities of playful cleverness can be said to have “hack value.” On Tuesday March 19th at 6:30 pm, Tanya Snook (aka @spydergrrl, girl geek [...]