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 Coaching
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: Retrospective and [...]
I just recently returned from beautiful Little Rock, Arkansas and Little Rock Tech Fest 2017. As I described recently, it’s a great regional conference that I was fortunat [...]
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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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Agile Conference Report - Mile High Agile
I just finished attending my favorite agile conference this year – Mile High Agile. Sponsored by Agile Denver, MHA is a medium-sized conference that still attracts outstan [...]
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An Alternative Way to Assign User Story Poi [...]
One of the hardest concepts for some teams to understand, especially when they first start using user stories, is that of story points. “What is a point?” they [...]
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The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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Introducing Principal Agile Evangelist Bill [...]
Happy Thursday everyone! I wanted to write up a quick blog post to introduce myself. I’m Bill DeVoe and I’m the new Principal Agile Evangelist for Velocity Partners. [...]
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To Coach or not to Coach
I was inspired for this article by the same titled blog post from Simon Nadav Cohen that you can find here: https://labs.spotify.com/2016/05/1 [...]
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