Approaches to Organizational Change
Mary Poppendieck gave her usual well-researched and convincing tour-de-force presentation at LSSC10 on several approaches to organizational change with a talk titled “What’s wrong with targets?”Read More
Lean Influencer’s Mantra
Siraj Sirajuddin shared a deeply insightful reflection on the nature of Agile/Lean coaching. Lot’s of insights for me. Read More
Kanban for Video Game Production
Clinton Keith gave an insightful session around designing and configuration a Kanban system for leveled video game production. Read More
Shopping List for Sticky Notes and Markers
The purpose of this post is to provide a shopping list for collocated teams that use Agile to create a Kanban or Scrumboard. This acts as a boundary object to create context and bind a team.
Shopping List for Sticky Notes and Markers
The purpose of this post is to provide a shopping list for collocated teams that use Agile to create a Kanban or Scrumboard. This acts as a boundary object to create context and bind a team.
Open Space Rocks Toronto Agile Community
On Saturday, the Toronto Agile Software Development Community had its inaugural Open Space event called Agile Open Toronto. It went really well. Lot’s of positive feedback and of course tips for improving next time.Read More
Strategies for Effectively Managing Legacy Systems
Derek Longmuir presented ThoughtWorks QTB on working with legacy systems. You can see the video and slides on InfoQ.
Aligning and Balancing your Backlog
This is a review of Luke Hohmann’s excellent blog series on Product Backlog Prioritization. As usual, I have captured what I believe to be the salient points in a visual note. The main points are to:Read More
Customer Team Helps Product Owners Survive
Part of my standard training for Product Owners is to help them understand how they relate to everyone else in an Agile/Scrum world. Hence the drawing below.Read More
Improve your communication through nonverbal rapport
At Scrum Gathering Orlando, I ran an experiential workshop titled Improve your communication through non-verbal rapport. The session turned out really well so thanks to everyone who participated. My only tools were a flip chart and some markers, so the purpose of this post is to provide details for attendees as well as provide visibility to anyone interested in better communication.Read More
Crucial Conversations
One important book that has been in my communication toolkit for years is Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. I am mentioning it now since I shared some of these elements in my Scrum Gathering workshop Improve your communication through non-verbal rapport. I’ll blog on this shortly; back to the book. Read More
So you want to be a CST?
There was a really good session at the Scrum Gathering’s Open Space on some of the challenges around the CST application process.Read More
