Big-Ass View on Competency
Published July 15th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Agile team members create their own rules, based on constraints imposed by the environment. But something else is needed for good results: some call it discipline, craftsmanship, or competence. Traffic management teaches us that there are 7 approaches to achieving competence in a self–organizing system. We are going to look at all of them.
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Systemic Software Development for Agile Teams
Published July 13th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Agile methods are people-oriented but they touch the surface of people dynamics. They provide a framework in which constructive interactions among all stakeholders may happen, but cannot per se generate those behaviors. The success of an Agile method is determined by more profound human dynamics. Organizational Systemic provides new insights on how an healthy team works and grows relationally and technically. This video presents its fundamentals and how they relate to different Agile methods.
Video Producer: Agile Central Europe Conference
The Pomodoro Technique
Published July 1st, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
The Pomodoro Technique™ is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.
Kanban for Just in Time Training
Published June 29th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
It is not uncommon in IT projects that you are required to learn something on the fly or you see an opportunity to introduce a new technique or tool that would bring great benefits to a project. In this presentation, John Stevenson discusses how Kanban can be used to manage a training schedule, for either personal development or for team skills transfer.
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Migrating from Scrum to Scrumban – an Experience Report from a Kanban Virgin
Published June 10th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Last year one of my client teams was looking for a better way to work following some problems while running fairly standard Scrum. One change appeared to be to combine Scrum with kanban – “Scrumban”. So we jointly decided to give it a go. This experience report explains how the team did it. It should help anyone interested in evolving their Scrum and other timeboxed iterative process to an interesting alternative. The talk will cover:
* Why evolve? A summary of how the team was working and the issues they were seeing.
* Practical observations of how using kanban changes timeboxed iterative develop process
* Some of the questions that you will need to address when you change
* Some concrete solutions to those questions Where next? Possible directions for further evolution.
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