Getting to Know A4A: Bob Hartman
Continuing our Getting to Know A4A series, we’re talking with “Agile Bob” Hartman, trainer, coach, and the venerable founder of Agile For All.
Getting to Know A4A: Richard Lawrence
Today, our Getting to Know A4A series focuses on Richard Lawrence, agile trainer a…
Getting to Know A4A: Peter Green
Our Getting to Know Agile For All series continues. This time, we talk with Peter Green.
Getting to Know A4A: Peter Saddington
Continuing our Getting to Know Agile For All series, today we’re introducing Peter Saddington. Peter is a trainer, coach, and consultant, and our lone team…
Getting to Know A4A: Carol Conrad
Agile For All has grown to 11 people now, but many of our readers and clients only know one or two of the team. So, over the next few weeks, we'll be …
Making Info Visible for Better Decisions
A key part of the ScrumMaster’s or Product Owner’s job is making information visible.* Whether that’s a product backlog, taskboard, cumulative flow diagram, or a…
From Predicting and Controlling to Embracing Complexity
Agile Organizations shift from a focus on predicting and controlling work to embracing complexity, using experiments and feedback loops to learn and grow. This post is…
Talking About Our Feelings—Potentially Awkward, Definitely Important
Last week, I described how to do the observation step of Focused Conversation without having to talk about all the details. At this point, many…
From Shareholder Value to Customer Delight and Shared Purpose
Agile Organizations shift from a focus on short-term profits towards a focus on customer delight and achieving a shared purpose. This issue is the first…
Ask A4A: When the Observation Part of Focused Conversation Gets Boring
The Focused Conversation method asks us to start with observations before assigning labels – good, bad, effective, worthwhile, motivating, etc. In real-life facilitation, it can…
MMFs: What they are and why they matter
Suppose you have a headache. A bad headache. “I’ll take Tylenol to make it go away,” you think. So, you grab the Tylenol bottle and…
Getting Good at Story Splitting
As I’ve said before, working in thin vertical slices is the key habit in Agile software development. Many people struggle to find vertical slices, but…
Why Most People Split Workflows Wrong
Workflows are a very common element of software. But they can be hard to split well when you’re trying to work in small, vertical slices…
How We Use Agile at Home
Here’s a short video about how my family uses an Agile approach for homeschool and chores:
What Do We Mean By Welcoming Complexity?
Subscribe To The Welcoming Complexity Newsletter In this inaugural issue, we explain the newsletter’s title and provide a few thoughts on relevant Agile For All blog…
Vertical Slices and Scale
Last week, I tweeted, Working in thin vertical slices is the keystone habit for agile software development. It enables so many other good practices. —…
80/20 Facilitation (or, all the study on facilitation most people need)
In response to my recent post on developing your skills in 2016, several people mentioned facilitation as a skill they want to grow. As with…
Humanizing Work First-Time Participant Guide
Humanizing Work 2016 is just 6 weeks away, and we want to help you prepare to have a great experience there. Beyond the basic info…
Developing Your Skills in 2016
You’ve probably heard that it takes 10,000 hours to master something. That notion, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers, isn’t quite accurate—Gladwell has…
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…
