It’s called the daily standup for a reason. It happens daily and you standup. Why do you standup? You stand-up in order to keep the meeting short. Each team member should answer 3 quick questions:
what did I do yesterday?
what am I planning on doing today?
what’s in my way?
I’m amazed at all the grumbling I hear [...]
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Time for another (almost) weekly installment of Interesting Post. Every week I feel like the number of agile related articles was pretty light… but then I go to build this post… and realize there was a ton of great content out there. I guess I ju…
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Okay… time for part two in my Noodling on Kanban mini-series.Yesterday we talked about the Kanban board and how it was similar, but not the same, as the Scrum task board. We also talked about work in process limits and how they can be used to explic…
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My post yesterday about managers leading agile teams got quite a bit of attention. We had a great discussion over Twitter and many of you guys left fantastic comments on the blog itself.The one thing that came out of all that discussion… for me pers…
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One of the first things I do when I meet a new team is ask them to introduce themselves and tell me a little about what they do. We go around the room and people say things like “hi… I’m Bob and I am the Product Owner” and “hi… I’m Sue and I am th…
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Here are some new techniques on an classic agile game to help new agile teams understand differences between waterfall and agile.
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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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Describes how to use a task board when a team has one remote member
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It’s been quite a while since I last blogged, my apologies to my faithful 10-person readership. Today was a particular hellish day after being off for only a few days. I came back to complete dis-array within the team and process and actually was quite surprised based on how well things were going and how [...]
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A list of things (such as all other team members) that should be visible from within an ideal agile workspace.
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