This is an interim blog post defining my thoughts whilst attending the five day Holacracy Practitioner Training in Philadelphia. I will probably repost my final thoughts or add some comments when I return back to Australia. So why do Holacracy Practitioner Training in the first place? It certainly wasn’t because I had client that had …
There are some great things about Scrum. Having a regular cadence for planning how to do work, working together to progress work and regularly reflecting and getting feedback both on how we work together and what was delivered are all great concepts. But I have come to a somewhat scary hypothesis that it isn’t the …
Last week I revealed a little game/exercise that I have been running to demonstrate the difference between activities and behaviours in a non Agile environment versus an Agile environment and how the activities and behaviours shift to the team and the Scrum Master/Iteration Manager. I would like to now share the results of the game. …
At a recent Project Manager meetup group in Sydney, I wanted to spend some time covering the difference between the Scrum Master versus the Project Manager role. I figured what better way to do this than to have the group themselves collaborate in an Agile way to guide the answers? So I created the Behaviours …
Scrum, the most used Agile framework/method in the world, has been responsible for many successful and some less than stellar Agile transformations. Created prior to the establishment of the Agile Manifesto, but its influences heavily intertwined into the Agile Manifesto, the difficulty I have had after using it for over ten years is that 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. …
In a recent tweet, If you must do some pre-project prep, so be it. Please don’t name it “Sprint 0” that makes it seem valuable. It isn’t. Delving further into the tweet I learned that “many use Sprint 0 to enable bad habits” (don’t disagree), that it maybe should be called “project chartering” instead and …
Sometimes there are moment in life when like a bolt out of the sky you have a major self realisation. I had one of those moments recently when I realised that for a majority of my coaching life I have been pushed and prodded by my leaders/managers to behave as a Purpose Driven Agile Coach. …
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 …
Firstly I do apologise for the long absence on the blogging scene. This was in part due to my shift from Brisbane to Sydney, lack of internet, lack of technology, but also due to illness. So for my first blog back for the year I would like to implore you – PLEASE if as an …
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