One of the biggest mistakes that I see new Agile teams (or teams at scale) do is moving too quickly into a different format to do a retrospective. It isn’t too surprising when you see that there are so many different ways to do a retrospective, after all, if there are that many options then …
In a query that recently spammed the Agile universe by Abder-Rahman Ali was a question posed about the difference between User Stories and Software Requirements Specifications, specifically 1) Do you think that “user story” is just a fancy name for SRS? 2) How do you compare a “user story” to “SRS”? 3) Do you think that …
On Thursday the 20th of June I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Craig Smith (@smithcdau) at Agile Australia on “Visual Management: Leading with what you can see”. For the slides you can go directly to slideshare or click through the embedded contents below. The presentation was video taped so when that is released I …
I have been probably one of the longer running candidates for being a Scrumbut user. Back when I started Agile 11 years ago, the rulebook was slightly different – retrospectives were part of XP and not Scrum and many blended XP and Scrum effortlessly without issues. This time could be described better as doing ScrumAnd. …
Version One have released their annual State of Agile Development Survey for 2012. Co-inciding with this they also released a blog titled the ‘Top 10 Things the State of Agile Development Survey Won’t Tell You’ which I excitedly opened only to find it was a joke blog post. This was slightly disappointing as I love …
This blog is in response to a number of requests about creating Agile games. I have spent the last two years creating a number of Agile games and whilst I certainly wouldn’t declare myself and expert next to the amazing machinations of @lukehohmann of Gamestorming I do try to make games that are fun, educational, simple …
As part of my back to basics series I wanted to spend some time on the topic of Retrospectives, otherwise known as Introspection or Reflective Improvement sessions. If the Stand-up is the bread, then the Retrospective is the butter. It is simply just one of the most fundamental elements of doing/being Agile there is. Alike …
Can them what you will – Daily Scrum, a Huddle or a Stand-up, but whatever you call it a Stand-up is one of the simplest Agile (and arguably knowledge and service management) practices out there. Three questions are answered by the “core team”: What I’ve done since we last met… What I plan on doing till …
Jvonvoss at Minds.coremedia.com recently did a very interesting blog – A World without Burndowns: The Unified Taskboard. It was an interesting concept – use your done column to replace your burn down chart. Normally a taskboard will look like this: The done column is just a list of everything that the team has achieved. …
If a story is a promise for a conversation then… an estimate is a promise to potentially get it wrong If a story is a promise for a conversation then… a retrospective is a promise to follow through on agreed to actions If a story is a promise for a conversation then… a vision is a promise to …
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