Agile Coaches – Extinction Event?
For years as I’ve been getting older, I often refer to myself as a “Dinosaur”. It’s not a bad analogy, as I’m getting quite old in the tooth. I’m certainly not as [...]
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Category: Agile Coaching
Agile Coaching Canvas
I hate to admit it, but I’m a relatively ad-hoc agile coach. I don’t use a lot of frameworks or tools. I mean I have a few that are well used and well worn, but I don’t [...]
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Scrum Alliance - Coaches Retreat: Coaching-the [...]
I’m a volunteer for the Scrum Alliance helping to facilitate Global Coaching Retreats. The retreats are for anyone who currently does or is [...]
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Are you Happy?
In several previous posts, The Essence of Agile Metrics: http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2012/6/2/the-agile-project-managerthe-essence-o [...]
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Let’s Focus on “Inside Out” Agile Transfo [...]
I used to think that there were basically three forms of agile transformation. They were and [...]
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What’s your incentive to be “Agile”?
I once worked as a coach at a large financial firm that had been “going Agile” for quite awhile. They were one of the worlds largest firms, so the teams and the projects [...]
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Shock Therapy – Revisited: Bootstrapping [...]
I remember it was approximately 2008-2009 when I read a blog post, then article/paper about this idea. At the time Jeff Sutherland mentioned it, but the leading voice behind the [...]
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What does “Agile Maturity” Look Like?
I was sent a request to gather my idea on what Agile Maturity looked like from a column writer. Here’s her request: Here’s my thinking: In 2015, I heard many software [...]
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When Sprints End Badly
Of course it’s going to happen. No matter how good an agile team is, eventually they’ll have a tough sprint and something bad will happen. They’ll miss the work they [...]
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A Bakers Dozen of Inconvenient Truths that [...]
I’ve occasionally shared blog posts related to questions from my good friend Lee Copeland. Lee will occasionally send me an email asking a question related to an article or [...]
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