This is one of my all-time favorite techniques to quickly arrive at consensus for Agile Teams. I use Roman Voting ALL the time because is fast, it is easy and it is fun. I have even had people tell me that the Roman Voting technique was the most memorable and useful ...
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Coaching is a distinct and powerful skill from the eight other essential skills of an Agile Coach (CSP-SM). Because coaching is an overloaded word in the English language, let me provide some guidance to describe what I mean when I am referring to coaching. For me, a coach is a person ...
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Back in 2012, I worked with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents). Our goal was to figure out a way to support learners on a progressive educational journey from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach (CSP-SM). While the specific offering we developed did not ...
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Fearless Journey is a game where the goal is for the players to discover a new transformational reality. The power of Fearless Journey is that it allows us to engage in deep thinking on how to completely alters our present condition and help us ignore the little problems that distract us. The objective ...
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"That is nice a idea to try, but don't expect anyone outside your group to do it." "I would do it, but our company has already adopted X, so there is no use in trying." "There is just not enough time in this release to try something new. Let's do ...
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Stop doing things that demotivate people! Seriously...there are a lot of silly things that people are expected to endure in big companies that are severely demotivating. Almost all of Peopleware is spent identifying how common practices in software management demotivates people. If it is within your power to stop these ...
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An Agile coaching dojo is a safe place to improve three important skills for an Agile Coach - observing, listening and questioning. The goals of an Agile coaching dojo are to offer opportunities to practice listening without judgment, gather information more effectively and ask different kinds of questions to understand ...
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At Applied Frameworks Online Education, our goal is to provide you the essential information ("no fluff") in condensed chunks when you need it. The way that we are going deliver on that promise is through our C6 learning approach, which is based on the ideas found in Accelerated Learning. C1 ...
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For just a small investment of $13.99, you can have your very own facilitation starter kit! It has post-its! It has Sharpies! It has stickers! It has everything you need for your next collaborative, engaging and productive conversation with the Team, your users and the customers. For just $13.99 you ...
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Yesterday's Weather is an Extreme Programming planning technique used to estimate the capacity of a Team based on their past performance. Yesterday's Weather is a guide to help Teams neither under commit nor overcommit to a set of Product Backlog items during Sprint Planning. It is based upon the old ...
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