One of the first few comments to my partner after I touched down back into Brisbane last night was ‘Gosh I’m buggered. It’s been such a long week!’ He smirked at me and shyly commented ‘Monday was a public holiday. And you still have to work tomorrow.’ Was it really just two days? It felt …
Okay so I don’t get asked this question enough but feel a need to justify it to some extent because I am tremendously passionate about it. Why am I, an Agile Coach, so fascinated with MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games)? At its heart the reason is fairly simple – because behaviour is unconstrained, and …
I had the lovely pleasure tonight to see Jean Tabaka in action at the Brisbane YOW night. Topic in reflection: 12 Agile Adoption Failure Modes. My interest was immediately peaked when the opening question was “Ask the four or five people around you what are some of the key causes for an Agile Implementation to …
A fellow coach, lets call him Dr Evil, was recently describing the fun that he was having on an Agile coaching assignment. He was tasked to work with a small PMO (thats project… or in this case Program Management Office) among a number of other teams. He put on a cheeky grin like Dr Evil and I …
Ever had that moment whilst Agile Coaching when you just want to /facepalm but you know professionally you can’t. Here is a list of my more notable moments over a few years (sufficed to say this is not all of those moments): A Standup where the Project Manager stood at the front near the story wall and …
The 80/20 rule is not an Agile concept. It would be considered a super belief applicable to many management streams and yet its relevance in the sphere of ‘Agile’ is pretty high. The mathematical basis is from the Pareto’s Principle that was further expanded by Dr Joseph Jurin. Jurin observed that 80% of value was …
A friend of mine recently posted an interesting blog promoting that agile does not require a compliance framework and asked for some review feedback. As I began my tirade back I realised that it wasn’t really feedback, but more an alternative view of the blog and vowed to post the reply to it as per below. I would like to note that in …
Over ten years ago I vividly remember the first moment I saw ‘Safe to fail.’ I was working for a large scale telecommunications organisation. Most of us working there were pretty young. With our youth came inexperience. I learnt that through a project re-assignment I was going to have a new manager and was anxious of …
red tape — n obstructive official routine or procedure; time-consuming bureaucracy There are many corporate techniques out there that seek an approach to innovation by removing internal blockages and challenging existing paradigms. In Agile this is no different. Techniques within Kanban deal with removing blockages by visualising the blockers and limiting work in progress to force a …
We’ve all seen it before. Agile projects that turn tragile, commonly without any one person’s fault and despite the best intentions of the team. Projects which have no known velocity, no iteration kickoffs or showcases, little visibility of the plan and who is doing what and total uncertainty as to whether the business’s desired scope …
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