“Too many coaches relegate themselves to the kid’s table and are really ineffective at making big, organizational-level changes. Agile coaches are change agents and should be sitting at the adult table”. I am paraphrasing my colleague, but this was the gist of his lament when discussing effectiveness of some Agile ...
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Working Agreements are one of the core compacts that all good Agile teams need and use. For those of you unfamiliar with Working Agreements, they are nothing more than agreed upon protocols created by the team govern their interactions and clarify expectations. They are different from Ground Rules which tend ...
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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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Did you know that in addition to the Agile Manifesto that the authors listed their twelve principles of Agile software? Based upon my very unscientific survey of recent CSM students, only about 2,"Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility." % to 3,"Continuous attention ...
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While the ideas written in the Agile Manifesto have been inspiring and durable, the actual uptake and introduction of these new ways of working within teams and organizations has not been long-lasting. It seems like what was radical and groundbreaking in February 2001 now feels commonplace, trite or even old ...
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I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural internal Agile conference by DBS Bank in Singapore, which to my surprise opened with comments by the CEO Piyush Gupta. The term “comments’’ fails to describe Piyush’s exceptional articulation of how Agile connects to the bank’s strategy. He covered three major topics ...
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A meeting is any conversation that results in a decision in order to get something done. Since the goal of the meeting is to arrive at a decision, the meeting participants stay in the meeting until they have arrived at the decision - not one second longer, not one second less. ...
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"Are we doing Scrum right?" "Is SAFe the best Agile framework for us?" "Are we Agile [enough] yet?" Common questions from beginners and decision-makers investigating Agile software development. For me, I find it hard to give a specific answer to these questions because it depends on a number of more interesting questions ...
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When I worked as an internal Scrum consultant for a San Diego biotech, I had the pleasure of working with one of the most talented and creative programmers I have ever met - Tim Scheer. Tim was part of our team Scrum transformation team and he was the person on ...
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