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Facilitating a retrospective with 50 people in an hour
As one of the volunteers at Agile 2012 I was honoured to be asked to facilitate the volunteer retrospective. There were a few constraints that made this retrospective challenging. First, due to our volunteer responsibilities we had just under an hour to eat lunch and complete the retrospective. Second, there are about 50 volunteers – … Continue reading
San Jose Budget Games 2013
“Whatever is the problem, community is the answer” – Margaret J. Weatley. I’ve been reading some of Margaret’s writings this week and her words have been ringing in my ears as I remember participating as a volunteer facilitator in the 3rd annual San Jose Budget Games on January 26. Somewhere close to 200 community leaders, … Continue reading
#Agile means never saying never and always saying maybe – #Agile #Inertia
Recently at a few Agile discussions I have noticed people saying things like: “You should never provide estimates” “You should never start to code without automated tests” “You never need Business Analysts or Testers” “You should never create requirement documents” To me, Agile at its heart is always seeking to understand first. Many of these … Continue reading
My #Agile #Manifesto
Over the last several months my blog posts have given people an insight as to what I believe in regards to developing software and working on teams. I thought it might be a good opportunity to sum up those blogs in a post that clearly says what my beliefs are and what My Agile Manifesto … Continue reading
When #Delegation is just #Dictating
I came across an example recently of a person dictating and directing when they believed they were delegating. This tends to be something I see quite frequently in my day-to-day project work. For delegation to occur, I believe that there needs to be three crucial characteristics. These characteristics are: 1) Direction and Leadership Delegation is … Continue reading
Giving #Agile a bad name
Sometimes I read articles that I feel give Agile a bad name and hurt the cause. Recently an article was retweeted from earlier this year that compared Project Management to a disease. You can read the article here. I’m not sure why some agilists feel a need to diminish and criticize Project Management so completely. … Continue reading
The value of being #kind and #considerate
A friend of mine, @CaseySisteron, had tweeted an article about how it is more important being kind than clever. You can find the article here. I had thought it was one of the best articles I had read recently. It seems than sometime people believe that you need to be ruthless and uncaring to be a good … Continue reading
Top Three Rules of #Agile Software Estimation
Yep, Estimating is hard. It isn’t easy and it isn’t without peril. Unfortunately it is a fact on 95% of the projects we work on. So given that, I’m not sure that telling people not to estimate is productive. There are a lot of misinformation about estimating though. Not all estimates are evil and not … Continue reading
Ceasar Salad and the danger of metrics…
I stopped in at a local grocery store on the weekend to pick up some Dijon mustard for my home-made Caesar Salad and I discovered what I thought was a prime example of bad management practices. Right behind the check out counter was a board that listed the company principles and one large chart for … Continue reading
#Project Steward
I’ve written posts before in regards to how I dislike the term Project Manager. I feel the definition implies that the Project Manager is above the team and that the Project Manager controls or moves the resources on the project as he or she sees fit. It has the connotation of a command and control structure. The Project … Continue reading
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