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One of the things I struggle with as a coach is convincing companies of the necessity for coaching. Part of this I guess is the self-interest involved. Mainly however, it lies in my seeming inability to articulate why training on its own is not enough. So let me offer an analogy: imagine someone wanted you to [...] As I coach more and more teams, I notice a pattern. Scrum masters who fear (or loath) conflict try to resolve discrepancies in estimates as quickly as possible. They will try to force a majority vote as consensus. Or worse, place the dissenter on the spot, somehow implying that they are holding the process up. This [...] Henrik has published his slides for his upcoming talk at Agile 2009. They represent what I believe to be a concise, entertaining and complete intro to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about scrum. His book ‘Scrum and XP from the trenches‘ is usually the first book everyone reads when they want to know about [...] As a life long fan of technology and one privelaged to work within a high tech industry, it’s easy to get distracted by the shiny… used with permission: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemay/ Technology is nothing but tools. When you consider that the people who are usually most passionate about technology are the ones in the agile camp, the proliferation [...] I feel like I may need to start this post by paraphrasing a song: “You’re so vain, you probably think this post is about you.” I have had the privilege of working with some remarkable technologists during my career and the danger is that they misinterpret what I’m about to write about. Steve McConnell calls [...] I promised to write a post about a woman in IT whom I admire as part of this campaign. The woman I admire happens to be my wife, Karen Greaves. She has been my mentor and inspiration. She has made a reputation for herself as a superb boss (although I hesitate to allow her to be my [...] For those of us not lucky enough to be in Orlando right now, the Open Space findings are being captured at: http://scrumorlando09.pbwiki.com/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=Orlando Presentations are also being published to the Scrum Alliance site at: http://www.scrumalliance.org/resources?tag=SG+Spring+2009 There has been some vigorous discourse about the state of scrum in the past few months. I’m not going to refer to them specifically. What it feels like is that scrum has reached a level of acceptance and recognition that it has now become mainstream enough to warrant the kinds of attacks that can build your [...] I’ve published a little TEST for those of you brave enough to find out what level of scrum you’ve implemented. It is based on Jeff Sutherland’s presentation on ‘Money for Nothing, Change for free’. In it he describes an updated version of the Nokia Test. I’ve taken the liberty of turning it into a very basic [...] This leads on from a comment on my previous post. The implication seems to be that in a new project, scrum will tend to result in a ‘design by committee’ design-smell or anti-pattern. From Wikipedia: “The defining characteristics of “design by committee” are needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying [...] |
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