I am presenting at Agile 2010
I am really excited to have two sessions accepted at Agile 2010 in Orlando. As I am a big fan of pairing to get high quality, I am happy to […]
Rapid reliable releases
I recently attended a ThoughtWorks QTB – Rapid, Reliable Releases (AKA It’s not making money until its in production) by Rolf Russell and Andy Duncan. It was a solid presentation […]
The Backlog is in the Eye of the Beholder
Subtitle: How we created and played a brand new game all in one day. On Day 2 of DeepAgile, Michael McCollough and Don McGreal got us started on with a […]
How to create your own game
Michael McCollough and Don McGreal ran a valuable workshop on how to create your own game. Mike and Don have been creating simple, fun games for years and have noticed […]
Team and pair games for building collaboration
Tobias Mayer led a fun and effective session (Agile Playground) at DeepAgile where we played games for building team and collaboration.
Constellation, Journeyline and Marketplace for Tuning Teams
Lyssa Adkins ran a very practical session at DeepAgile that shared several tools for team formation or for tuning up existing teams. She often uses these right at the project […]
Get more out of your retrospectives
At DeepAgile2010 this past weekend Mike McCollough led a session on Retrospective Games. We played a brand new game called Balloon Madness as an excuse to use several different retrospective […]
Learn to coach and observe through play
At DeepAgile in Boston, I played Yellow Brick Road: Fresh InsightsThrough Peer Coaching. The game was led by it’s inventor – Portia Tung who did a great job even with […]
Scrum or Kanban? YES!
Alternate Title: A model for understanding Scrum and Kanban (Cool diagram below – skip down if you are in a rush 😉 Or check out the 3 minute video explaining […]
No Interruptions in Scrum is an Anti-pattern
Alternate title: Most Scrum teams need a Kanban board I am a big fan of Scrum, however, the notion that there are no interruptions during a sprint is simply not […]
LSSC10 Keynotes on Process Models, Assumptions and Risk
Sadly, I did not do as good a  job capturing the the LSSC10 keynote sessions as I would have liked, but maybe I captured something you missed…
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?”
