Christian Gruber, a Googler, an agile guru and an Aikido practitioner clears up some important mis-understandings about Shu-Ha-Ri as applied to both learning Agile and learning Aikido: http://bit.ly/bqgvZS . Strongly Recommended!
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Agile, aikido, Learning, shu-ha-ri, training
My friend, Arif Gangji, and I created this video to help his customers understand why his company uses Scrum as their software development framework. I decided I really liked the video, so I’m posting it here as well. It isn’t perfect, but it is plenty good enough to get across the basic ideas of Scrum. Over [...]
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Agile, Newbie
I’ve just submitted a proposed session to the Agile 2010 web site:
Test-Driven Development for the iPhone, iPod and iPad
Please go to the site and let me know in the comments there if you have any suggestions about the proposal!
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Agile, Agile Engineering, Announcements, Iphone, TDD, Xcode
OpenAgile is similar to Scrum in many respects. Both are systems for delivering value to stakeholders. Both are agile methods. Both are frameworks that deliberately avoid giving all the answers. So why would we choose OpenAgile over Scrum?
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Agile, Business, culture, Innovation, new work, open source community, OpenAgile, Process, Professional Development, Reference Information, Scrum, XP and Lean, Scrummaster, Teams, Theory of Agile, Truthfulness, value delivery, Work
That burndown chart looks sweet doesn’t it? The team finished the iteration on time. What could possibly be wrong. Well, a lot actually. Notice that one day this team completed a tremendous amount of work. Do you ever see teams really do that? It certainly could be a symptom of allowing large stories and they [...]
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Agile, Antipattern, management
Ever see a burndown chart like the one to the left? I’ve been on a big burndown chart kick lately and when I saw this one I just couldn’t resist using it. This one is a bit different from my previous blog entries here and here. This burndown chart is a release burndown rather than [...]
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Agile, Antipattern, management, Testing
See that picture off to the left? That is me and my agile team! It’s not a bad picture, but there appears to be something missing, right? Where’s the “team” part of me and my team? Well, you’re looking at it! That’s right, I am a team of 1 for almost everything I do. This [...]
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Agile, management
This presentation was originally given at Agile 2009 in Chicago. Richard Lawrence and I wanted to give teams a bit of hope if they weren’t quite doing agile. In order to do that we gave a presentation helping them understand some of the basic issues. However, we also recognize every organization is different. We didn’t [...]
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Agile, management, Presentation
Earlier this week I posted a blog entry “Agile antipattern: Burndown charts that hide the truth” which dealt with one way a burndown chart could hide reality. This blog entry shows another way it is possible for a burndown chart to be misleading. The burndown chart to the left is actually pretty common, especially for [...]
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Agile, Estimation, planning, Practices
See that burndown chart over there to the left? It looks beautiful doesn’t it? It is an actual burndown chart with no made up data. It looks like this team is kicking butt and having a great sprint. Unfortunately, the chart lies! It turns out this team is actually in difficulty and in fact are unlikely [...]
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Agile, Antipattern, management