• September 8, 2021   Plaster Group     0

by Peter Lacy, Senior Agile Consultant Introduction Organizations characterized by a high degree of regulation and strict control over change ...

• September 30, 2019   Plaster Group     0

Modern software project plans have become overly complicated and are no longer accomplishing their purpose in the modern knowledge-based economy....

• June 26, 2019   Plaster Group     0

by Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant Introduction Estimating agile projects, especially within an organization transitioning from waterfall to agile, is ...

• June 11, 2019   Plaster Group     0

by Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant Agile consultants often work in large IT organizations, and are frequently asked, “What is ...

• May 30, 2019   Plaster Group     0

by Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant I. 13th Annual State of Agile Report The 13th Annual State of Agile by ...

• November 1, 2018   Plaster Group     0

By Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant In 1972, Jan Wallender the new CEO of Handelsbanken bank in Sweden, concluded that ...

• May 3, 2018   Plaster Group     0

by Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant Watch this video to see how some common beliefs about Agile development stack up ...

• April 4, 2018   Plaster Group     0

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• February 18, 2018   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group was delighted to participate in another successful Agile Open Northwest at Seattle center. AONW is an annual open space conference ...

• January 31, 2018   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group is again proud to sponsor Agile Open NW. And, Plaster Group Agile consultant Aki Namioka is co-chairing this conference. Look ...

• July 3, 2017   Plaster Group     0

by Shama Bole, Sr. Agile Consultant  Growing up, I remember being told the story of a village boy in India ...

• February 23, 2017   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group was a proud sponsor of yesterday’s BeyondAgile event. This month’s meetup was at Getty Images and was presented ...

• August 30, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Check out these two upcoming Seattle Agile Events September 1st – BeyondAgile at the Museum of Flight 5-9pm Plaster Group ...

• August 8, 2016   Plaster Group     0

  We asked our Senior Consultant and Director of Agile Solutions, Grant Beck what was the last book he read. ...

• August 8, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Aki Namioka, Sr. Agile Consultant  When an organization is deciding how to manage the work of an Agile team, ...

• June 29, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Challenge Our client – a regional medical provider – tried to incorporate Agile methods in its IT departments for several ...

• June 13, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Our Agile practice area had a presence at a meetup co-hosted by Seattle Health Innovators and the Washington Chapter of ...

• May 16, 2016   Plaster Group     0

by Shama Bole, Sr. Agile Consultant and Client Service Director What grew as a creeping sort of dissonance over the ...

• April 26, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group hosted its first Agile Round Table of 2016 this past Friday. We had a wonderful group of participants resulting ...

• February 8, 2016   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group had another great year sponsoring and attending the tenth annual Agile Open Northwest, a three day conference at Seattle ...

• January 28, 2016   Plaster Group     0

The Challenge Our client’s Enterprise Data Warehouse department was tasked with providing their customers a centralized, intuitive, timely, and comprehensive ...

• October 12, 2015   Plaster Group     0

 Plaster Group held their second Agile Round Table on Thursday, October 1st, at Plaster Group HQ in downtown Seattle.   ...

• April 3, 2015   Plaster Group     0

By Shama Bolé Plaster Group launched our first Agile roundtable today under the aegis and hard work of our Agile Practice Area ...

• November 10, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group Agile consultants Grant Beck and Shama Bole conducted a half-day Agile training session at a Seattle-based healthcare company last ...

• July 31, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Moving to Agile improves quality, increases customer satisfaction, and develops a culture of continuous improvement. Challenge Our client, a large ...

• June 19, 2014   Plaster Group     0

This article is the second installment of a two-part article on prototype-driven Agile development. It is strongly recommended that the ...

• February 27, 2014   Plaster Group     0

By Grant Beck, Plaster Group Agile Solutions Director A few weeks ago, I attended a gathering of Scrum masters to ...

• February 18, 2014   Plaster Group     0

by Grant Beck, Plaster Group Agile Solutions Practice Director Challenge Our client approached Plaster Group with a desire to undergo ...

• February 12, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group Agile consultants Shama and Grant had a great time time last week at the Agile Open Northwest conference. ...

• February 3, 2014   Plaster Group     0

by Shama Bole, Sr. Agile Consultant The traditional role of a Project Manager (PM) is becoming obsolete – or at ...

• January 31, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Plaster Group is excited to be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Agile Open Northwest 2014. AONW is a non-profit alliance of ...

• January 1, 2014   Plaster Group     0

Challenge By definition, Agile application projects don’t have all of the requirements fully specified or all of the features designed ...

• January 25, 2013   Plaster Group     0

By Grant Beck, Agile Solutions Practice Director Recently I was tasked with the challenge of converting two project teams to ...