Flaw of Averages: Conference Report from Mile [...]
I just recently returned from Mile High Agile, a great regional conference based here in Denver. I am somewhat required to say that because I’m on the Board of Directors [...]
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Category: Agile Tips and Pointers
The Agile Manifesto Principles Revisited - Par [...]
In this final post of the three-part post about the Agile Manifesto principles, I think it’s important that we reflect on the impact the manifesto has had on software [...]
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When Should Quality Assurance Start in Agi [...]
One question an organization should ask when adopting agile is “what happens to our quality assurance function?” I’ve seen a lot of different implementations [...]
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Working Toward Team Performance Perfection
I recently saw a post from a friend of mine who’s very active in the Agile Denver community about “working toward better, not best”. And while I agree with the [...]
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Revisiting the Daily Scrum Meeting
Daily Scrum is the basis for most companies’ agile implementations. In fact, so many companies use this as the only measure of whether they’re agile or not that its [...]
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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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Focus on Agile Teams - Trip Report from Medel [...]
I just completed a trip to our Medellin office where I met our Solutions Managers, our on-site agile coach, and several of the agile teams that make this a great place to work. [...]
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Is the Scrum Product Owner part of the te [...]
As a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), I belong to a CSC/Certified Scrum Trainer discussion group. The folks on this list are a relatively small group of coaches and trainers that [...]
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The Agile Project Manager - WIPping Things into [...]
This is the conclusion of a post on the power of WIP limits within agile teams. Now we get to the juicy part…the results. Results I rarely like to use numbers to illustrat [...]
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The Agile Project Manager - WIPping Things into [...]
I once was leading / coaching a team that struggled mightily to work together as a team. I was the Director of R&D at an eCommerce SaaS product company. We had been leveragi [...]
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