An Agile Merry Christmas 2010!
Are you feeling the Christmas spirit yet? I know not everyone celebrates Christmas, so if that isn’t the holiday for you, think about your equivalent,…
Year: 2010
Overdue Agile and Scrum Thanks
Last year around this time I wrote a blog entry “New to agile? Give thanks!” That was written from the perspective of an agile team…
In defense of the Scrum Alliance
Have you ever felt really let down by someone you respect? I guess the way the world is today we can all cite a long…
Want Productivity? Focus on Predictability Instead
Focus your team on predictability, and productivity will come. Focus on productivity, and you’ll get neither productivity nor predictability.
Your Agile isn’t my Agile!
Have you ever had the feeling someone REALLY didn’t get it? I had that feeling recently when reading this article about the supposed weaknesses of…
New to agile? Remember, sometimes things get crazy!
Do you ever get so frustrated you feel like pulling your hair out? I do (although that is NOT a picture of me to the…
Just Enough Regular Expressions for Cucumber
Jon Archer wrote last week about how Cucumber makes knowledge of regular expressions important. He’s right: Regular expressions are the key to Cucumber’s flexibility. Well-crafted…
New to agile? Learn how to fail well
Is success or failure really a choice? I don’t think it is at all. Pretty much no one chooses to fail. Unfortunately, we can’t just…
Paul Rayner Joins The Agile Cooperative
I’m excited to announce that Paul Rayner’s company, Virtual Genius, has joined The Agile Cooperative. Paul is the founder and president of the Denver chapter…
Agile antipattern: Target fixation
Have you ever been so focused on something that the rest of the world seemed to disappear for a while? This can be great under…
I’m a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) – so what?
This is a companion post to last year’s “I’m a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) – so what?” post. In that post I spoke about the…
Agile antipattern: Sizing or estimating bug fixes
Is the bug to the left a large bug or a small bug? It looks HUGE to me! Well, in reality it is probably between…
New to agile? Remember a user story is more than a card!
What’s wrong with the user story on the card? It seems to have everything we need: a) short title, b) a size (in this case…
What style of agile training works best?
Have you ever been in a class or training session which is so boring you felt like you might fall asleep? Or maybe you are…
If you had been me at the Orlando Scrum Gathering…
you would have had an absolutely indescribably fantastic time! And that’s just for starters. To be honest, the phrase “that was so much fun it…
My Orlando Scrum Gathering Presentation
I’m making my Orlando Scrum Gathering presentation “Doing Scrum Isn’t the Same as LIVING Scrum” available as a PDF. You don’t have to fill out…
Orlando Scrum Gathering – I’m going to be a doctor soon!
In about 5 minutes I’m going to play the role of being a “doctor” at the Scrum Clinic which is part of the Orlando Scrum…
New to agile? Watch an Intro to Scrum video in about 8 minutes
My friend, Arif Gangji, and I created this video to help his customers understand why his company uses Scrum as their software development framework. I…
Finally back online and going full speed ahead
Have you ever had a computer meltdown? OK, so myIT infrastructure meltdown wasn’t as total as the picture to the left, but it still was…
The ScrumMaster Diaries: #3 – Becoming a CSM
Dear Diary, I completed day 1 of my 2-day Certified ScrumMaster course today and I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed. I didn’t have any idea…