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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 Alls’s Quote of the Week – January 13, 2021

    I’ve read a lot of books about agile. None of them have said, “Be dumb.” None of them have said, “Be smart.” either, but they…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-13
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    Results of my First 2021 Writing Sprint

    Well, that was easy! I downloaded Ulysses and figured it out enough to create a blog post later in the day. Super easy to use.…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-09
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    Using Scrum in 2021

    I am writing this on January 3, 2021, basically the start of a new year. Like most people, at the beginning of a new year,…

    Bob Hartman 2021-01-03
    1 Comments

    An Agile Lesson from the Movie “City Slickers”

    As an Agile trainer and coach, I have worked with hundreds of companies over the past 10 years. After reflecting back on my interactions with…

    Bob Hartman 2017-10-23
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    Peter Drucker ’s view is integral to the values of Scrum

    Peter Drucker said, “Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of…

    Bob Hartman 2016-03-23
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    Peter Drucker understood agile leadership and agility before it even existed!

    Management and leadership in the 21st century need to be significantly different or businesses will be left behind. People recognize this and management is slowing…

    Bob Hartman 2015-11-16
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    Agile For All adds three new members to the team

    In case you missed the press release, Peter Green, Adobe Systems Agile Transformation Leader, will join our Agile For All team on March 16th. I am…

    Bob Hartman 2015-03-02
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    Agile and Scrum training the Agile For All way

    Take a moment to consider the last time you were in any sort of training environment. Were the tables set up “classroom style” so everyone…

    Bob Hartman 2015-02-05
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    Looking Back at the Past Two Years

    I want to start this post by thanking Eric Englemann (yes, that is him above!), the CEO of one of our awesome clients, Geonetric. Almost…

    Bob Hartman 2014-09-12
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    With apologies to Bill Engvall, ScrumMasters, here’s your sign!

    Have you ever had one of those days when you wondered if your ScrumMaster was on crack? Or maybe you’re the ScrumMaster and the you…

    Bob Hartman 2012-01-03
    4 Comments

    Agile Practitioners Aren’t Supposed to Use Flamethrowers – Are They?

    Have you ever been in a flamethrower war? I sincerely hope you have never been in one like the picture, but if you have been…

    Bob Hartman 2011-12-22
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    As a ScrumMaster silence can be golden!

    I love it when someone who was in one of my workshops sends me a message saying something from the workshop worked well for them.…

    Bob Hartman 2011-12-19
    4 Comments

    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,…

    Bob Hartman 2010-12-24
    1 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-11-23
    1 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-10-21
    31 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-08-23
    2 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-07-27
    4 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-06-14
    5 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-18
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    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-17
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