Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Thoughts in Retrospective

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08:30
Agile retrospectives are something that all agile teams are by now familiar with, to one extent or another. Retros are built into the manifesto in Principle 12; At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly. Retros were built...
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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Overcoming Management's Perceived Disempowerment During Agile Transformations

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19:37
Since my career delivered me to the world of agile, I have mainly worked with organisations that were in the process of an agile transformation. This is a very different environment to any other. When an organisation makes any kind of large scale cultural change it is almost inevitable that it will...
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Thursday, 4 August 2016

Doing Agile, Being Agile

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10:23
Over the last few months I've heard many experienced agile practitioners talk about their thoughts and feelings around agile adoption in London, and the wider world. A common theme between them all has been that there is a difference between saying that one is 'doing' agile, and actually being agile....
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Tuesday, 5 July 2016

INVEST

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18:03
This is another post resulting from my recent review of the notes I made when taking my CSM course. I love a good mnemonic. There are plenty of words that I can only spell by remembering some strange sentence. I especially like it when a mnemonic relates to the data that one's trying to remember, and...
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Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Five Values of Scrum

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13:42
I've just come across my CSM notes and thought that it was about time I wrote them up so I could dispose of the paper copies. I couldn't think of a better place to start than with the five values of Scrum. Posted by Unknown ...
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Monday, 23 May 2016

The Ten Minute Trainer

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02:00
This week's Adventures with Agile meetup was a seminar by Sharon Bowman, author of Training from the Back of the Room. As with all the best talks it was both engaging and informative. We were taught in my favourite way; by doing what we were learning. As one person on my table said, "This is incredibly...
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