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It is amazing to think that the Agile approach to developing products has been around in various forms for many years. Some would say the mindset can be found in the Scientific Method that Francis Bacon developed in the 1620’s. Agile has taken root as the defacto mindset to have...
I recently came across the Headspace app for meditation and found their analogies on meditation to be very good. Below are the videos in the rough order they are delivered when you go through the introduction to meditation. They are just over a minute each but very good at explaining...
In the spirit of the holidays but with a slight twist, I bring you the 12 days of dysfunctional Scrum. 🙂 Happy Holidays to all and have a Happy New Year! Stay safe! Be sure to play the music while reading. If you are rushed for time, I provided a summary...
Time and time again I see teams struggling with getting backlog items completed inside of their Sprint/Iteration (Scrum duration of time where the Development Team develops a portion of a product to be demonstrated, usually 2 weeks or less). Typically the business folks feel they have clearly defined a backlog...
Having facilitated many retrospectives over the years, there is common format (excuse the image pun, “4” mat) that I have found helpful regardless of the technique (check out my Favorite Retrospective Techniques post) used. The format used is based primarily from what I learned at The Agile Facilitator course by the...
Below are a collection of retrospective techniques that I have found very useful over the years. There are many more that I have also used but these are the ones I lean on heavily. I think it is very important to vary the format of any retrospective if you are...
Some Agile-related meme’s to keep the doctor away. If you liked some of these, you might like these also. Collection of Agile-related memes More Agile-related Memes A Few More Agile-related Memes And the Agile-related Memes Keep Coming If you have some Agile-related memes worth sharing, please post a comment.
Many of us would like to operate as a high performing team. For those that have experienced being on a high performing team in the past whether in sports, business, or volunteer work, it is amazing and something to be cherished. There are many ingredients that go into a team...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness …” so starts the classic “A Tale of Two Cities” story by Charles Dickens. I get excited every time I read that opening because I know...
“More software projects have gone awry from management’s taking action based on incorrect system models than for all other causes combined.” –Â Weinberg-Brooks’ Law. From the words of “The Fifth Discipline” author, Peter Senge, “Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools that has been developed over...
