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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Category: Agile Coaching
Self-Direction; Self-Organized … Really?
One of the core ideas or principles of agile teams is this notion of a self-directed, self-managed, and self-organized team. In my experience, it’s one of the [...]
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The GREAT Enterprise Agile Coaching Mist [...]
I have a good friend and colleague who works in a rather large enterprise. Among others, she’s tasked with bringing “agile” into the organization and “transforming” th [...]
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Release-level Retrospectives: Stepping up your [...]
From 2009 to 2012 I worked as the Director Software Development and Lead Agile Coach at a company called iContact. If you’ve followed my writing, I’ve used my experiences [...]
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What does it take to be an "Experienced&qu [...]
A week or so ago, out of a bit of frustration I posted the following comment on LinedIn: Weird. Every day I see more and more “Agile Coaches” and they seem to have [...]
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Retrospectives – Information for the curi [...]
Book References Sort of the “Godfather” of the modern day, agile retrospective is Norm Kerth. I always try and mention norm and his work as a means of giving folks a sense [...]
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Agile Training – Can there be too many games [...]
Several years ago I went to an agile conference, actually the annual agile conference sponsored by the Agile Alliance. One of the sessions was a 90-minute workshop put on by an [...]
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Agile Coaches & Trainers – Have you [...]
I’ve written several times on the subject of how coaches and trainers in the Scrum and Agile communities often use “management” as a term implying dysfunction and marginal [...]
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Real-World, part-2
In my last post I ranted a bit about hearing the phrase: “But Bob, in the real world…” too many times in my agile travels. That it seems to infer that the agile methods [...]
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