Continuing from the last post, I want to finish the MMF thoughts… Caution: There is Minimum. Then there is Viable There’s a wonderful Harvard Business Review blog article [iii]where David Aycan discusses additional nuances associated with the notion of an MMF. He makes the point that quite often today, in our fervor to hit the […]

Many agile teams are familiar with the requirement artifact called the User Story. I often teach agile requirements in organizations and my favorite analogy for the user story is a lightweight use case on a 3×5 card. I tell everyone it’s not a ‘good’ analogy, but it does work for envisioning. Another way to look […]

I want to share a story from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. It’s been on my mind quite a bit of late, as I tell it in some of my agile classes. However, I’m unsure whether the students believe me or they glean the significance of the story. I usually share it to illustrate a […]

As you may or may not know, I’m an active agile coach. While I have a wonderful day job, I often get asked to enter new teams and jump-start them or assess their overall level of agile-ness. One of the ‘smells’ that I look for in a strong and healthy agile team is what I’ll […]