Rachel Davies on Agile Coaching

Published November 15th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Rachel Davies, the author of the book “Agile Coaching” published by Pragmatic Programmers, discusses Agile Coaching.

Resources:
* Review of the Agile Coaching book
* Article Agile Coaching Tips by Rachel Davies

Dogfooding Kanban

Published November 8th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

Chris Hefley is President and co-founder of Bandit Software, the makers of the online Kanban tool “LeanKit Kanban”. About a year ago, we began to assemble an international team of developers to build out the software we had envisioned. If you need a break from erudite dispositions, scholarly research, hard evidence and sound theory, then stop by and hear this collection of tidbits, tall tales and unfounded accusations. It’s about learning to walk, and those moments where we looked at each other and said “Dude…we suck at Kanban” – and what we did to get better at it. In this session, we’ll share some lessons learned from dogfooding our own product, managing a highly distributed team, working 19 hours a day, and figuring out how to apply Kanban to our own development process. We’ll also talk about things we’ve learned from observing and interacting with our users – how they’ve responded to an electronic kanban tool, and how they’ve implemented kanban in their organizations.

Watch this video on leanssc.org

How to Get the Best ROI From a Scrum Team as a Product Owner

Published October 27th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

The Product Owner is probably the role that has received the least attention and help of all the three Scrum roles but it is paramount to an organisation’s success with Scrum. While most projects benefit immediately from switching or adopting Scrum, to get the best out of the project a Product Owner really needs to understand both the team and the Scrum framework. In this tutorial Geoff will share his views and experiences of working with Scrum teams to provide you with a number of tips to improve your ROI.

Watch this streaming video from the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010

Making Scrum Stick: Sustainable Scrum Transitions

Published October 20th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

You’ve started to rollout Scrum within your organization and the initial teams are working well. What are the next steps? How can you keep the change sustainable?

Video Producer: AgileCE

Agile Mythbusters What People Are Really Doing in Practice

Published October 20th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Some of the myths are that agile has been adopted by the majority of development teams, that agile approaches are more effective than waterfall approaches, that agile is empirical, that agile teams don’t do up front requirements or architecture, that agile teams produce less documentation, that it is common for agile teams to take a test-driven approach, and many more. Several of those myths are true, several false, and some we’re not so sure about yet. This talk summarizes the results of 4 years of industry surveys concerning the adoption and effectiveness of agile techniques. Very often the reality is significantly different than the rhetoric presented in mailing lists, in articles, and even in books. It is time to cut through the dogma promoted by agile consultants and instead focus on what agile practitioners are actually doing on their projects.

The Sword And Other Tales

Published October 6th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

In this fast-moving and varied presentation, Gwyn and Laurie will condense over a year’s worth of retrospectives into one hour of shiny new practices that have been stress-tested in small web development teams. We’ll talk about the Wall of Wire, the Sword of Integration, and how to play Speed Poker with commitment and without cards. This is an experience session, so each new tool will be supported by a description of the problem that caused us to develop it, and the results of putting it into practice. Other areas we’ll cover:
* How to use a sword of integration to fix build collisions (unimportant) and weld a group of programmers into a high-performing team (important)
* How to recognize a Stealthholder before they destroy your project
* How to enhance planning poker to get more accurate estimates, faster
* How to use heat-seeking actions to make sure that meetings actually achieve something
* How to survive if you’re scrum-mastering several small projects at once
* How to use lego to introduce Agile to customers

Adding Sanity to Your Agility

Published October 4th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

David Hussman shares successful coaching techniques he uses to grow sustainable agility that lasts beyond the early iterations or the first few agile projects. David begins with a series of tools to help you build a solid foundation: assessments, pragmatic practice selection, chartering and product planning tools. He then moves on to discuss ideas for finding a groove of discover and delivery that is best suited to your project community. He uses coaching stories and experiences to discuss establishing strong cadence while also building the essence of coaching and coaches in your community Whether you are new to agile methods or you are a seasoned players, this session will help you grow your coaching skills and your ability to truly discover and deliver real value.

Video Producer: Agile Mumbai 2010

Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban

Published October 4th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Tim Wingfield tells his story moving from Scrum to Kanban, presenting several versions of Kanban boards used over time, including the benefits and drawbacks. He also mentions additional practices used: retrospectives, pair programming, code review, and stand-up meetings.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Moving-to-Kanban

A Kanban Multiverse

Published September 21st, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

A kanban board is more than simply a task board, or a story board, or even a team board. It’s a visual management tool to create a shared mental model amongst a community of interest. As such, sophisticated display techniques should be used to create meaning and motivation through collaboration and communication. A kanban multiverse could be “the hypothetical set of multiple possible kanban boards that together comprise everything that physically could be visualised: the entirety of scope and time, all forms of work type, status and flow, and the organisational laws and constants that govern them”.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-scrum/karl-scotland-on-a-kanban-multiverse

Taming Chaos with Scrum and Kanban

Published September 13th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Practitioner report on applying scrum and kanban techniques to a system engineering team.

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