What Is Agile Coaching?
When organizations begin an agile transformation, they tend to focus on the “how” first. Investigate some processes, select one, try it out. Oftentimes that process [...]
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Category: Agile Training
When Agile Coaching Engagements Go Wrong - Par [...]
In Part 1 of this series, I described a situation where the agile coaching that I provided was rejected by management. In this installment, we’ll be talking about a differ [...]
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When Agile Coaching Engagements Go Wrong - Par [...]
What do you do when life gives you lemons? Sometimes you make lemonade. Sometimes you throw those lemons at someone. Given the time I’ve been doing this, I’ve been [...]
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Little Rock Tech Fest 2017 Speaking Engagem [...]
In just a couple of days I’ll be speaking (well, facilitating a session) at Little Rock Tech Fest 2017. I’m humbled that I was selected to participate. It’s a [...]
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Agile Coaching versus Agile Training - What's [...]
I’ve been involved in agile coaching for several years but I’m seeing a trend of people totally misunderstanding the role of an agile coach versus that of an agile [...]
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Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Financing an Outsourced Software Development [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve spoken at conferences this year about creating a sustainable agile transformation. Our culture is often embedded in our policies [...]
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Creating A Sustainable Agile Transformation [...]
I’ve been speaking a lot this year at various conferences (Big Apple Scrum Day, Music City Agile, and Agile 2017 to name a few) about the need to engage our Human Resource [...]
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The Test-Driven Development (TDD) Mindset [...]
In my previous article, we explored the train of thoughts when designing a component using test-driven development (TDD) to convert money from USD to COP. In this second part [...]
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Agile 2017: A Review and Retrospective
Agile 2017 just finished up last week and I thought enough time had passed to provide a good review and rumination on the conference. The tl;dr version of this post is that I [...]
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