With the advent of Scrum.org releasing their new Scrum Guide I wanted to take the opportunity to give it some academic and opinionated discussion. I’m going to start with the notes related to the update. They start by outlining the major change to Guide that has resulted in a good portion of content being removed …
Six years ago I was in a fitness craze trying to return to pre-baby body shape. I would go to the gym and do a number of classes, lift weights, cardio etc and probably did about 10 hours of gym work a week. A friend wanted to give Bootcamp a go and despite me already …
Ten years ago some smart guys got together to find what they had in common despite being to some extent competitors to each other. I like to think that whilst at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort that they jumped into an extra large jacuzzi and sorted their differences to find their passions that aligned. At …
Star Trek’s The Borg have a few things going for themselves. The first is that they ignore concepts/cultures/planets that are already well understood. They only seek that of which is new or different. I liken this to Alistair Cockburn’s Oath of Non-Allegiance: I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider …
I know there has been a slump in blog postings from me recently but there has been a reason that I am very excited about. After much blood, sweat and tears (by Tony) I am now proud to present the first few podcasts of ‘The Agile Revolution’. Tony, Craig and myself are hoping to get some regular …
I cannot take credit for a sassy title. In a fantastic realisation by a number of Social Neuroscience experts at the National University of Singapore (Annett Schirmer, Keng Soon Teh, Shuo Wang, Ranjith Vijayakumar, April Ching, Darshini Nithianantham, Nicolas Escoffier & Adrian David Cheok) have proof that physical touch influences our ability to empathize with and support the toucher. You can checkout the …
I posted recently about my fascination with online role playing games and how some of what intrigues me is around the area of incentives. This has had a bit of attention in the Agile space with Daniel Pink covering off motivation in his book ‘Drive’ but for the quick versions you can see his TED …
This one is for Mhano. Book 2 of 11 for the PMI Agile PM certification syllabus – Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwarber, 2004. Okay well firstly it is obviously about Scrum and doesn’t cover anything XP or ‘A’gile related. Given that it is getting a bit on in age I thought there would be …
I was recently reading a thread on the Agile Alliance group on Linked In where Matthew Weaver was asking for some thoughts about why Waterfall is demeaned by those that follow Agile and Scrum. The thread to me got very interested when Scott Ambler brought some metrics to the argument. Challenged: A project is considered challenged …
Over the last few months I have pondered going for PMI’s Agile PM certification. Unsure of how dedicated to this cause I might be, I decided to at least start reading the eleven books on the syllabus and see how I felt after reading one. The first one was “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore …
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