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    Author: Richard Lawrence

    Longtime co-owner of Agile For All, Richard left in October 2020 to co-found Humanizing Work.He trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems. He draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, and political science. Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. His book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber, was published by Addison-Wesley in 2019 (for more information, visit bddwithcucumber.com).

    Agile Denver Session Notes: Unscaling

    Update:  For our latest thinking on scaling and organizational agility see Scaling: Principles not Practices. For those who attended last night’s Agile Denver meetup, here are…

    Richard Lawrence 2014-08-26
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    Scrum Basics: When Should We Schedule Sprint Transitions?

    We’re often asked which day or days are best for scheduling the Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective meetings.

    Richard Lawrence 2014-08-05
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    Org Structure, Software Architecture, and Cross-functional Teams

    Some 46 years ago, Melvin Conway wrote, “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of…

    Richard Lawrence 2014-06-09
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    MHA 2014 Session Notes: Models for Support

    For those who attended my Mile High Agile 2014 session, Models for Support, here are the photos of the flip charts (with a little explanatory…

    Richard Lawrence 2014-04-23
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    Taking Agile Beyond Software

    Two years ago, when Bob and I merged our companies into today’s Agile For All, we wrote out a vision statement for the company that…

    Richard Lawrence 2014-01-31
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    The Agile For All Christmas Party & Four Charities We’re Fired Up About This Christmas

    In November, we asked our wives, Dawn Lawrence and Carol Hartman (whom many of you met at the conference), to plan a unique company Christmas…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-12-24
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    3 Ways to Handle End-of-the-Year Holidays on Your Agile Team

    The period from mid-December to early-January can be disruptive for an agile team. You’re used to working on a regular cadence, maybe in 2-week iterations.…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-12-20
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    Humanizing Work 2013 Conference Recap

    Last month’s Humanizing Work Conference was organized around one big hypothesis: that it was possible to do to a conference what we’d done to our…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-12-18
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    Focusing on the Right Things in Your Daily Scrum

    “Yesterday, I was in Sprint Planning…” I hear it once, and I’m suspicious. By the time the third team member says this, it’s clear the…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-12-06
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    Agile Homeschool

    My wife and I have been homeschooling our 3 boys since our oldest, who turns 13 tomorrow, started kindergarten. From the beginning, we’ve tried to…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-10-25
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    Change Happens—So Make it Cheaper

    Change on software projects is expensive; it leads to wasteful rework. Change is risk. We can deal with risk one of two ways. We can…

    Richard Lawrence 2013-09-03
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    Splitting Stories in Spanish (or, Como Dividir una Historia de Usuario)

    Thanks to Joserra Díaz for the translation (with feedback from Matin Alaimo and Alan Cyment).

    Richard Lawrence 2013-06-03
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    Story Splitting in Russian (or, Как Разделять Истории Пользователей)

    Thanks to Alexander Lutsaevsky for the translation.

    Richard Lawrence 2013-05-21
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    Splitting Stories in French (or, Comment découper un récit utilisateur)

    Thanks to Jean-Jacques Lévesque, my “How to Split a User Story” poster is now available in French.

    Richard Lawrence 2013-02-26
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    Functional Managers in Agile

    As an organization transforms to an agile way of working, functional managers (e.g. a dev manager or a test manager) can feel lost. Many of…

    Richard Lawrence 2012-11-19
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    Splitting Stories in German (or, User Stories Aufteilen)

    Thanks to translation from Kai Simons, my “How to Split a User Story” flowchart is now available in German.

    Richard Lawrence 2012-08-24
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    New Story Splitting Resource

    More than two years after I originally published it, “Patterns for Splitting User Stories” remains one of the most visited posts on my blog. Splitting…

    Richard Lawrence 2012-01-27
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    Coaching Surgeons, Cyclists, and Software Teams

    Atul Gawande is a surgeon and author who has written some excellent books and New Yorker articles reflecting on the state of modern medicine. Recently,…

    Richard Lawrence 2012-01-11
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    Cucumber Tip: IRB From Inside a Step Definition

    Most Ruby programmers know about Ruby’s interactive console, IRB. (If you don’t, stop right here, open up a command window and run irb. Type some…

    Richard Lawrence 2011-12-07
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    Building a Useful Task Board

    The task board is a simple, yet powerful, tool for Scrum teams. As a coach, I can tell a lot about a team just by…

    Richard Lawrence 2011-11-21
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