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    Culture is What People Care About

    Are you a consultant, agile coach, or employee of a company? Lol. That’s all of you!  Here’s the hard truth: You are not as effective as…

    Peter 2021-05-08
    0 Comments

    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
    0 Comments

    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
    0 Comments

    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…

    Richard Lawrence 2016-11-09
    2 Comments

    Be an Expert in a Year – Growing the Agile Way

    The guys over at Expert Table Tennis had a great idea. What would it take to become an expert? Dedication? Heart? Perseverance?

    Peter 2015-02-23
    0 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-05
    10 Comments

    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…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-03
    5 Comments

    Agile, scrum, lean and kanban blogs to watch in 2010

    I’m going to be spending a lot of time in 2010 writing blog entries.  Remember, I’ve committed to trying to write 4 blog entries per…

    Bob Hartman 2010-01-07
    4 Comments

    Agile pondering: How does a highly mobile agile team of 1 work?

    In my last post I gave you insight into how I do my work as an agile team of 1.  What I didn’t mention is…

    Bob Hartman 2009-12-17
    8 Comments

    New to agile? Learn how to split stories

    In my last blog Agile antipattern: Taking on large stories I said I would give you some tips on how to split stories.  First though, it is…

    Bob Hartman 2009-12-10
    5 Comments

    How to make a LOT more money using agile

    Yesterday’s blog post dealt with how to manage scope for an agile project.  Today I have to admit it was a bit of a setup. …

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-27
    2 Comments

    New to agile? INVEST in good user stories

    As a <user> I want <function> so that<value>. Above is a very simple user story template.  How can something so simple be so hard to…

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-14
    30 Comments

    New to Agile? Use a Rules of Engagement document.

    How do we work together? Seems like a simple question, right? How wrong you could be!  For an agile team, working together is vitally important,…

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-05
    10 Comments

    New to agile? Get focused with a vision

    Bear with me on this blog entry.  It takes a bit of setup until I get to the main point. Lately I’ve been doing a…

    Bob Hartman 2009-04-20
    0 Comments

    New to agile? Don’t settle for mediocrity

    James Shore recently changed the entire focus of his company. This blog entry gives his reasons why. The blog post really struck a chord with…

    Bob Hartman 2009-03-30
    5 Comments

    New to agile? Tools for distributed agile

    I’ve been working the past several weeks with some highly distributed teams.  Each team requires a way to track their project effectively (when you have…

    Bob Hartman 2009-03-26
    4 Comments

    New to Agile? Beware of the elephant in the room!

    Like many other agile consultants I am often asked how agile adoptions could fail.  This question has a myriad of answers.  A search on Google…

    Bob Hartman 2009-03-09
    6 Comments

    New to agile? Remember to eliminate waste

    When I teach any agile course I start out with the principles of lean that Mary and Tom Poppendieck have written about in their books. …

    Bob Hartman 2009-02-26
    1 Comments

    New to agile? Remember one thing: Just enough, just in time

    If you lived through the past few decades you have undoubtedly heard the time “Just in Time” (JIT) as applied to manufacturing.  This is the…

    Bob Hartman 2009-02-23
    8 Comments

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