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5 Things We Learned at AgilePaloozas in 2012
2012 was a great year of learning, collaboration and fun at AgilePalooza. We’ve crossed this great nation of ours, bringing stimulating talks on release planning, retrospectives, Lean thinking and more...
View ArticleMaking Release Retrospectives Strategic and Effective: Part 2
In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I presented the case for tying release retrospectives with strategic objectives and strategic metric, and outlined a 5-step process for defining strategic...
View ArticleMaking Release Retrospectives Strategic and Effective: Part 3
In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I presented the case for tying release retrospectives with strategic objectives and strategic metric, and outlined a 5-step process for defining strategic...
View ArticleMaking Release Retrospectives Strategic and Effective: Part 5
In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I presented the case for tying release retrospectives with strategic objectives and strategic metric, and outlined a 5-step process for defining strategic...
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The Agile Coach on Courage
The Scrum team’s way of working is based upon the values of Focus, Openness, Commitment, Respect (for self and others) and Courage. For this blog post, I’m going to dive into that last value a bit more...
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The Agile Coach on Failure
They say the best way to learn is sometimes through failure. I couldn’t agree more. Now you may be thinking, “Yeah, that sounds nice, but my boss doesn’t like failure. And I don’t like getting called...
View ArticleOrganizational Learning Always Precedes Agile Maturity
I’ve become increasingly convinced that a lack of learning is one of the largest inhibitors of agile transformation results. One can argue that we are at, or nearing, the end of the knowledge era....
View ArticleThe Missing Agile Value
This post was originally published on ItemsOnTheLeft.com. Author Carol Dweck has completely changed the way I approach the world. I’m a smart guy. I’m no genius but I’m pretty smart. Through most of my...
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Agile Management: Avoid the “Pretty Swans vs. Ugly Ducklings” Dichotomy
I usually come across two classes of workitems in agile projects as I train, consult and coach clients at VersionOne. Class A workitems: Customer-driven or user-driven stories, features, epics,...
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Time to Celebrate with Great Reviews!
Someone recently asked me what one thing would make any company’s Agile transformation and adoption more successful? Almost before the question left their lips, I shot back – “great reviews,...
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