Platinum Edge, LLC is excited to announce that the company’s Founder and CEO, Mark Layton, will be giving a keynote presentation at the Agile Gathering West Michigan conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 16, 2015. “The Agile Gathering West Michigan event...
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Using Scrum for Cybersecurity & Responding to Attacks
Cyber attacks are now the highest national security threat, according to the United States Director of National Intelligence. Technology that changes on a daily basis allows this type of attack to spread more rapidly than any other. This requires quick and sure...
How to Use Scrum for Relationships
Plan a wedding. Save for retirement. Find “the one” you want to be with. Teach your children how to set goals and make decisions. How does scrum make these life-altering events easier? Scrum and other common agile practices walk you through the process of: identifying...
Servant Leaders Build Extraordinary Teams
Leadership is naturally one of the largest components in the success of a project team (or any team for that matter). Sure, the actual project results the team produces are the primary measurement of success, but the journey taken by the team to get to that point has...
Agile vs. Waterfall: Three Questions to Determine What Management Style is Best for Your Project
A project’s ultimate success can significantly be determined well before the work actually begins. Establishing an effective framework for roles, teamwork, planning and communication is crucial and can be the secret leading to that success. Generally speaking,...
San Diego Scrum Certification: The Benefits
Project managers throughout San Diego have realized the importance of becoming a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and in recent years interest in Scrum has spiked considerably with an increased number of people completing certification courses. This video by the Founder...
The Roadmap for Product Development Success – 10 Steps
We agile people like to say a lot that being agile, and scrum is not just for software and the IT department, and I’d like to prove it. We have successfully worked on transformational projects with construction, human resources, micro-miniature medical devices, rock...
Screwing Up Several Things At Once: Multitasking
Multitasking is sometimes referred to as the art of screwing up several things at once. Well, new research from Stanford University shows that multitasking isn’t only problematic for reducing your efficiency and performance, it may even damage your brain. The research...
Spotify’s Company Culture: A Journey in Progress
Spotify Labs recently released part 2 of the animated video describing the company’s engineering culture, including their implementation of agile engineering practices. The culture at the company is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, so the video is...
Department of Defense Goes Agile, Outlaws Waterfall
In a move that has taken far too long to come to fruition but has finally arrived, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has made considerable changes to its procurement rules that in the past proved to be a major roadblock. Before vendors were bound by law to...
Combining Lean Techniques with Scrum
There are many agile methodologies and frameworks, including Scrum, XP and Kanban. For some, choosing one works well. For others, it’s necessary to use more than one. We find that most projects that are being done using "agile" are actually using three complimentary...
Common Agile Transition Pitfalls
Agile transformations do not take place overnight. They require discipline and consistent inspecting, adapting and following through. Any well-intended transformation is at risk of slipping back to old ways if certain challenges and pitfalls are not addressed and...
