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    Author: Bob Hartman

    Known as Agile Bob, brings over 35 years of experience and broad industry knowledge cultivated by serving in almost every role in the software industry including developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, product manager, project manager, business analyst, senior software engineer, development manager and executive. Over the past 20+ years Bob has grown from being an early adopter of Agile to his current status as a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) and Certified Enterprise Coach℠ (CEC) and an expert in training, coaching and mentoring across all areas of Agile development. Bob is a popular speaker, having spoken at numerous major conferences, seminars, workshops and user group meetings where his engaging style, holistic view of development and personal anecdotes are always well received by attendees. See his upcoming courses by clicking on Upcoming Courses under Agile For All in the menu at the top of your screen.

    Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (April 7, 2021)

    Sprint Planning Meetings for 2-week sprints should take 4 hours or less. However, the first one you ever do will be the worst 10-12 hours…

    Bob Hartman 2021-04-07
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    Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 24, 2021)

    Saying “Failing fast is ok” is not helping. People simply don’t want to fail. Instead, say “Learning fast is ok” and see how often people…

    Bob Hartman 2021-03-24
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    Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 10, 2021)

    <Sarcasm mode on!> When faced with two different ways to implement something, good programmers will ask themselves “what would the customer want?” Then they will…

    Bob Hartman 2021-03-10
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    Great Training Gives Life Changing Results

    The purpose of adult education is to help them learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.” -Carl Rogers…

    Bob Hartman 2021-03-02
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    Your team isn’t diverse? You should panic. Right now!

    We are at our most innovative when we exchange ideas with people from diverse backgrounds—even those with whom we vehemently disagree.” — Survival of the…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-25
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    Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 24, 2021)

    When you change the way you think about product development you will change the way you want to do product development. Remember to focus on…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-24
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    Destroying things is easy so dare to do better

    It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. — Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (page 416) by Gerald…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-23
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    Two Popular Time Management Techniques that will Change Your Life!

    When was the last time you felt like you had everything completely under control? If you are like most people who attend my classes, you…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-18
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    Powerful ways to build amazing teams (5 of 5)

    Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-16
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    Agile For Alls’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 10, 2021)

    Many people think Scrum is about getting things done faster. It isn’t. You get the right things done in the right order and you leave…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-10
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    Powerful ways to build amazing teams (4 of 5)

    Juggling is an illusion. … In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. … It is actually task switching. —…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-09
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    Powerful ways to build amazing teams (3 of 5)

    Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. –US Navy SEALs Your team is trying to go too fast. There, I said it. Deal with it.…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-04
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    2020 Retrospective: Top 3 Things That Made It Amazing

    2020 will go down as the year that started the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many memes about 2020, but I think Match.com may have won…

    Bob Hartman 2021-02-02
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    Powerful ways to build amazing teams (2 of 5)

    A team’s success with Scrum depends on five values: commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. — https://www.scrumalliance.org/about-scrum/values Is it possible five simple words will lead…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-28
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    Agile For All’s Quote of the Week (January 27, 2021)

    Scrum exposes your problems. Great teams fix their problems, mediocre teams say they can’t do anything about their problems. One improves, the other stays stuck…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-27
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    Powerful ways to build amazing teams (1 of 5)

    team building: the action or process of causing a group of people to work together effectively as a team, especially by means of activities and…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-25
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    Five Fixes for “It’s not my job!” Syndrome

    Have you ever heard someone say, “It’s not my job!” How did that make you feel? A lot of you must feel strongly about this…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-21
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    Try this to improve team performance

    Do you know a team that is struggling? Maybe your team? So often, leaders focus on trying to help the team improve performance without actually…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-18
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    End of Sprint 2 of My Writing Experiment (Why Tools are Still Important)

    My two-week trial of Ulysses ends tomorrow. I already know what I’ll be doing! Against all odds, Ulysses has successfully ingrained itself into my workflow.…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-16
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    The first step when managing dependencies

    What do you do when the project you are working on has a lot of dependencies? I just spent some time looking for advice on…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-14
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