How does a former musician build a successful business in the agile space? DevJam with David Hussman

June 22, 2012 - PRLog -- In this interview you will learn:

- How a musician pivoted to start a successful agile startup

- Some ideas on career path for SCRUM Masters

- Dude’s law on how to get more value

DevJam’s new studio in Minneapolis - from the outside it looks like cool coffee shop, but step inside and you will find programmers and David developing great software using the principles of agile.

Samir: So welcome to the Future of Project Management, this is Samir Penkar and I’m here with “the Dude” as they call him. From DeFJam and we are in a great facility here, it’s, I don’t know, it’s a coffee shop probably and there’s a ping pong table here.

David: It was a coffee shop, and now it’s called DevJam Studios.

Samir: Now it’s called DevJam Studio, great. And in this call we’re going to talk to David Hussman about Agile, project management and a lot of cool stuff. So, thank you for doing this.

David: My pleasure.

Samir: So, David, do you want to start off with telling us a story about someone who brought very great value out of, adopting Agile practices.

David: And, that’s a good frame, because they’re a lot of people who want to talk about how much their doing Agile and how much they’re doing Scrum, and it’s the wrong measure all together. I guess, there’s a company just in Minneapolis, there’s a lot of examples that I think are good. But there’s a company in Minneapolis out here and they do hardware, firmware, and software. So they have some of the hardest constraints. And I think they’ve done an excellent job, in that they stopped, very much, to understand what problem they were solving. So instead of saying “We need a new methodology,” they’re kind of first principle thinkers, they were saying, “We have some challenges and, we have some opportunities.” Because that’s the other thing, a lot of people talk about process and Agile is just the latest process.

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