Agile Coach Camp 2010 is coming the weekend of March 19, 2010 in North Carolina. I’ve heard great things about Coach Camp and this is my first opportunity to attend. You can check out their site here and for those who aren’t familiar with Coach Camp, it’s an Open Space conference focused on peer-to-peer learning and [...]
The Agile Manifesto is the heart of soul of what it means to be Agile and I often refer back to when talking to colleagues and especially with those that are new to Agile. This post was sparked after a great cross-group meeting that happened yesterday where some information was shared between groups that typically wouldn’t have [...]
One of my favourite scenes from Tombstone is when Ike Clanton says to Wyatt Earp, “Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don’t go around here. Savvy?” After Wyatt replies that he’s retired, Ike reiterates “Yeah, that’s good, Mr. Law Dog, ’cause law don’t go around here.”
A common theme that has been emerging from the classes [...]
9:30am – Oops, overslept a bit, but yesterday was pretty busy so I’m glad I got some rest. I head over to the A/V room, grab a projector, stop at the cafeteria to grab some wake-up juice and then across the building for our retrospective and iteration planning.
10:15am – We usually skip the standup on [...]
9:15am – I arrive at the office, check my email and the general Agile support box. Our stand-up is happening soon so I login to our tool and check out the burndown and see what tasks are in progress.
10am – standup. The team wasn’t really happy about standing up at the standups from the get-go [...]
I thought it would be interesting to share a day-by-day rundown of what a typical week looks like for me. The names have been changed to protect the innocent (or guilty!) but the events and activities are literally what I do week to week.
A new article will be posted each day this week and I’ve [...]
People often ask me “how does Agile tell you to do <this and that>” and having recently presented the fundamentals of Agile to a large mix of people, the textbook answer is “well, it depends”. Folks who have little to no experience with Agile seem to be much more accepting of the fact [...]