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7 Ways to Boost Your Ability as a Scrum Team Member
November 18, 2015
Where do you spend your days in the workplace? Are you living in the Scrum-oriented trenches of your organization, like the vast majority of us?
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5 "Secrets" of a Great Agile Leader
November 11, 2015
Are you considered an authoritative "leader" in your organization? Do you spend your day at the top of the tower or in the trenches?
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How do you scale Agile? Wait! Wrong question!
November 6, 2015
A lot of people talk about scaling Agile. It’s all the rage nowadays. Everyone wants to scale Agile. But what does that actually mean? What does it imply? What are the underlying assumptions?
Capital-A Agile
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The Scrum Master as a Teacher
October 25, 2015
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context.
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The Daily Scrum in a scaled environment
October 22, 2015
Before I begin, I have to make sure you’re not fixed on a misconception. The Daily Scrum is not a status meeting, nor a report back to the team. It’s a planning event.
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The Role of a Professional Tester in an Agile World
October 20, 2015
An agile development team is cross-functional, meaning that as a collective the team has the capability of building a potentially releasable increment (the working software).
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V-P-C + V-W-R: Boosting Sustainable Profit with a Modern "Scrum"-Petitive Strategy
October 20, 2015
WYGAT WEED WHACKER
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Turn Pair Programming into a daily practice
October 12, 2015
A lack of defined engineering practices, standards and tooling is an often observed problem in software development, regardless of whether Scrum is used.
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Daily Scrum - Tips & Tactics
September 26, 2015
Although the Daily Scrum seems to be a simple and straightforward event, I still encounter a lot of teams struggling with it. In this blog post I'll share my tips & tactics.
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Is Your Scrum Team a Set of Pawns or Players?
September 23, 2015
Update: after receiving some valuable feedback, I've added the third lesson learned.
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Multifunctional Learning & the reusable Sprint Backlog
September 20, 2015
Have you ever seen a Sprint Backlog that can be reused across Sprints? I have!
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ENTERPRISE AGILE TRANSFORMATION PART 3 - Lessons From The Dennis Mudd School of Roof Repair
September 15, 2015
GREAT DALLAS ICE STORM OF 2013
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ENTERPRISE AGILE TRANSFORMATION PART 2 - NagaVini's Experiments: The Seeba-V Pivot
September 8, 2015
This blog is the sequel to my earlier blog - Enterp
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ENTERPRISE AGILE TRANSFORMATION PART 1: The Story of B.B. Watts Lawn Service
September 1, 2015
WALT'S CHALLENGE
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Announcing the Product Owner Open assessment
August 28, 2015
The Scrum Guide begins the description of the role of the Product Owner as follows:
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Todays Customer Is Not Going To Be The Same As Tomorrows Customer
August 24, 2015
There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love...
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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Fanatic Discipline
August 24, 2015
In Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen’s book Great by Choice, a comparison is made between two expeditions to Antarctica in 1911. One of the expeditions mentioned is that of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian who was first to step on the South Pole.
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Large Scale Agile and Scrum vs. Waterfall: Agile is 6X More Successful, 1/4 the Cost, and 10X Faster Payback!
August 17, 2015
A pair of recent findings from the Standish Group confirm the astonishing success and cost savings of Agile approaches over waterfall.
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Building Change Momentum
August 14, 2015
This is the final post in a three part series. Please like, share,and/or comment.
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How do you slice your Organizational Change?
August 6, 2015
This is the second post in a three part series. Please like, share and commentand I’ll be sure to update you when the next post in the series comes out.
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Change is specific to your Organization...let your organization own their change.
July 23, 2015
Through my years of trial and error, I have learned there is no one size fits all solution to transitioning organizations to agile...context is king!
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Top Five Causes of Failed Agile Projects
July 22, 2015
VersionOne does an annual "State of Agile Development" survey and publishes the results for the cost of your email address. Thanks VersionOne!
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The Scrum Master as a Servant-Leader
July 20, 2015
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context.
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Is your Organization hoarding?
July 14, 2015
If you have seen the TV documentary series Hoarders which depicted the real-life struggles of people who suffer from compulsive hoarding. Some victims suffered so severely that they were often drowning within their own filth.
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Scrum: Who are the Key Stakeholders that Should be Attending Every Sprint Review?
July 9, 2015
The Scrum Guide requires that the Product Owner ensure that "key stakeholders" attend the Scrum Sprint Review, but who are these "key stakeholders"?
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Business Agility, Ok But, What Is That Agility?
July 8, 2015
Our topic is soccer, the 2013-2014 season’s Spanish Primary Division. Do you remember who finished the season first? Barcelona? Real Madrid?
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Is the "Growth Mindset" an Agile Mindset?
July 2, 2015
In Jeff Haden's recent post entitled "The One Attitude Every Successful Person Has", I was struck at how aligned this attitude is with the Agile Mindset. What do you think?
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Agile Leadership Lessons From My Dad
June 22, 2015
Father's Day offered an annual moment for me to reflect on the journey of a humble and influential man whose life was tragically cut short in 2002 - my Dad. Although it has been a number of years since his passing, he continues
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Defensive programming or paranoiac programming?
June 10, 2015
Recently discussing design and programming with an external programmer, he explained me his approach of defensive programming.
But before going in detail of his explanations, Wikipedia help us to define the defensive programming: