How can you even think about ‘constant improvement’ if you aren’t measuring your basic activity. Its taken rather more time than I’d like to admit to realize that Sprint burn up and burn down charts are not just an overly...
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Have the group write down just the answers to questions that they think up. They do not reveal those questions, and the answer shouldn’t of course indicate the question directly. For each ‘answer’ ask the group to suggest what the...
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“After I’ve finished this story, I’ll pick up story #1354”. Trouble is that #1354 is a 5-point story that will take two people two days to complete…and there are only two days left on the iteration. This is known in...
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I know…this is heresy you are thinking – Stories ARE Value. How does this even make sense? I suggest that teams try to think about committing to delivering a full set of value every iteration. This means focusing in one...
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While I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the project Governance, and how Agile fits into the organization’s governance structure, I’ve become to believe more and more that Agile isn’t a software development framework at all really. Its actually a...
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One of the problems that teams can easily fall into is that after a while the team stops feeling the pain of missing commitments. The commitments becomes aspirational goals that somehow don’t seem to get reached … “well we tried,...
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June 5th was my first retrospective with the team since being appointed as their Scrum Coach. One of the main challenges that the team had was that as a ‘NICE” team, they had fallen into a culture of group-think and...
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