Mishkin's willingness to tailor the course to address our specific problems made the event particularly worthwhile.
Peter Krug:
Great course, simulations helped drive key points home. It was a great opportunity to experience Scrum concepts through first hand experience.
Alex Sirota, consultant to non profits and the public sector:
Agile methodologies are the way of the future and Mishkin Berteig and his able bodied staff and volunteers deliver a very large amount of value in a very short amount of time. His class on agile project management answered many of my questions about Scrum and agile work, but it also raised so many more... This is good, because it means that my knowledge deepened during his class, something that rarely happens in an all day seminar on topics less interesting.
Rich Freyberg, former CIO of Schwab Capital Markets:
For three months, near the end of the downsizing at Schwab (2003-2004), I led a small group of excellent programmers in the creation of a proof of concept for the Internal Brokers' Desktop - integrating myriad, technologically diverse applications. This POC was well received by both the business and technology communities, resulting in the funding for a multi-year, highly successful implemention of our vision.
Due to the lack of budget and time, we were forced to use what has come to be called an Agile Methodology. The project was guided by daily status meetings, high level narratives of functional use cases, and a daily prioritized backlog of work. In order to manage the complex interactions of .NET, Java and legacy systems, we relied on the team to self-organize and collaborate heavily rather than writing up-front design documents.
Our initial success led to the continued use of agile practices on the follow-on project.
Edward B. Roberts, Senior Software Engineer, BMH Associates, Inc.:
"Mishkin Berteig of Berteig Consulting... provided a 1-day introductory seminar concerning the Agile Process to the BMH software engineering staff in September 2005. The presentation was well received and satisfied our goal of introducing the process. Mr. Berteig concluded his presentation with a novel group exercise to drive home the benefits of the Agile Process."
Anonymous (participant in the Agile Project Management course):
"Mishkin is a very effective trainer who successfully communicated some abstract ideas to a challenging class in a surprisingly brief period of time."
Steve Livaudais, IT Director, Nielsen Media (participant in the Intensive Agile Work for Teams):
"Great class that smashed all my preconceived notions and misperceptions about Agile. [I] left the class ready to start an agile pilot."
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Our initial success led to the continued use of agile practices on the follow-on project.
Agile Work Apprentice Coaching: Build your internal capacity to run Agile projects.
Agile Work Team Coaching: Ensure the success of your Agile teams.
Agile Project Launch Assistance: Start an Agile project on the right path.
Troubled Project Recovery Using Agile Work: Avoid disaster with Agile practices.
Enterprise Adoption of Agile Work: Transform your organization into an Agile enterprise.
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