Daily retrospectives are is not a new idea, but it is important to recognise and re-iterate that there are other things than just running a retrospective at the end of each iteration. Consider the heart of Agile for a moment – it is a reflective improvement framework aimed at dealing with the complexities of imperfect …
I was recently inspired by a tweet where a Grade 4 class was asked what they would like to learn. On my weekends the inevitable question arose from my six year old daughter “Mummy, what can we do?”. For the first time in a while I had a well planned answer for her. She had …
Ken Schwaber doesn’t tweet very regularly. It is usually only a few tweets a month. But yesterday some of the Agile community went a little in a flurry over a tweet that he sent out: If you clicked through to the link you went to a website called controlchaos.com. For reference, here is a screen …
In a previous post I shared my wonderment of how teams work hard to reach peak performance when they cannot see each other in the gaming world. I see great synergies here with Agile – how different is it when software development is done in a distributed or offshore manner? Let’s take a look at the techniques gaming …
Most people in the Agile community are now familiar with the Marshmallow Challenge where the primary purpose is a lesson in collaboration and communication (according to the website), but for me the key takeaway is the need to prototype and fail early. In one of the post events in Agile Australia 2011 Thoughtworks took a …
Phil Kan (philxan on twitter) recently sent in a problem to the The Agile Revolution problem bag: We have a Product Manager who’s supportive of Agile in theory, but won’t do the work we need him to do. How do we manage that? A few tweets later we learnt a little more… They aren’t available for the …
Indoctrination is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology (see doctrine). It is often distinguished from education by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned. Wikipedia Do we teach through repeated instructions? Yes, I see this often. Inculcating check. Do we present a vision of a practice or approach being positive or negative? Agile …
Do you know what the difference is between an epic, a theme, a user story, a feature and a MMF is? I am willing to stand up and say that I have no idea anymore. I have just spent over an hour looking over books, presentations and blogs to try and find the answer and …
It was with some trepidation that I took at look at Seth Godin’s Tribes book. This was primarily due to mixed reports from friends whom had read it. It was so mixed that it was pretty evenly split down the middle 50% loved it, 50% hated it. Those that didn’t rate it felt that it …
Is e-mail ruining our agility? Should more effort be taken to restrict it or dare to even ban it within the workplace? Lets take a look at e-mail and how agile or lean it is vs not. ANTI – For team members who are located in the same building, using e-mails is not encouraging face …
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