The theme of the blog this month is “Getting a Fresh Start.” In order to get a fresh start it is important to know WHY you want to do it! I’ve seen many presentations over the years about why agile is something a software development organization should use. I’ve seen this sort of presentation called [...]
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Leadership, management
Do you want to see several different ways agile and scrum burn-down charts can lie? If so, you are in the right place! This month I went on a burn-down chart craze and posted several blog entries about the different ways those charts can lie to us or expose us to team dysfunction. In order, the [...]
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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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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
In my last post I gave you insight into how I do my work as an agile team of 1. What I didn’t mention is I am highly mobile. I travel a lot to other cities and even when I’m in my normal city I have meetings all over the place. How do you remain [...]
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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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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
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
Here in the United States we will be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 26. If you are currently on an agile team you may want to consider giving thanks a bit earlier! My thank you list would definitely include:
1. Thanks for the organization allowing us to be successful with an agile development framework.
2. [...]
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Agile, management, Newbie
There are two things every leader needs to know to be successful: first, a leader must clearly articulate what they expect, and second, they need to inspect what they expect on a daily basis. The big challenge though is how do you stay on top of changing priorities? And how do you avoid micro management and making your team crazy? This is why OpenAgile, in my opinion, will be very quickly embraced by management teams around the world. It has all the necessary tools to ensure success.
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