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Tag Archives: agile
Your stance towards learning
In Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata, he describes the approach that managers and executives have towards PDCA as a management system. Quote: “If we assume that at any time anything we have planned may not work as intended, that is, that … Continue reading
Leading from the Middle
“The Key role of middle management is reinvention.” Tom DeMarco Often I hear of Agile Adoption best occurring top down. Salesforce.com did that, from zero to Agile overnight. Other times I hear about bottom up Agile , or Agile in … Continue reading
“Hitting the wall” with your Agile Adoption? Try adding technical practices…
This is a great post that uses the familiar metaphor of the gym and physical fitness to apply to adopting Agile. I’ve seen the pattern described here too often. Developers start out the first three sprints and produce production ready … Continue reading
Bay Area Agile Philanthropy Group
A group of folks interested in using agile values and principles to give back to the community is going to meet in January to charter the Bay Area Agile Philanthropy User Group (BAAPUG). This will be on January 17 at … Continue reading
David Anderson Speaks at Bay Area APLN
I attended a special meeting of the Bay area APLN chapter. David Anderson gave a talk on his recipe for success with Agile. Here are the notes. It was a good talk. I especially liked his description of how he … Continue reading
Use Parallel tracks for user experience work
At the APLN Leadership Summit I was fortunate enough to attend a track led by Arlen Bankston and Jeff Patton that discussed some of the patterns and practices that are beginning to emerge for incorporating user experience into the agile … Continue reading
Look who’s got a Lookahead Plan?
After seeing Mike Cohn’s presentation on Agile Estimation and Planning, I got very excited about a technique he described as lookahead planning. A lookahead plan is simply a quick look at the next couple sprints to determine what stories are … Continue reading
How I do standups
Everyone has their own flavor of standups. Some do it standing up. Some do it sitting down. Some do it in a club with a microphone. I’ve never been that brave. For me, the scrum standup goes like this. I … Continue reading