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I am seeking opportunities to try out the following workshops with willing “test teams”. In exchange for this learning experience, I am offering the following workshops free of charge: Agile Games....
View ArticleHow to become a scrum master
A.K.A. “How to get that first scrum master job.” I’ve answered this question twice in the past two weeks, and when it came up again today on a mailing list, I figured I’d cross post here. Basically, it...
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Iteration One: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
The team space contains two tables facing a large (10’ x 5’) projection area. It feels like the split-screen arrangement I’ve seen many developers using, only much, much larger. It’s easy for all six...
View ArticleDear LinkedIn – please stop bugging me to buy your premium membership and...
The reason why I am not buying it is because it is a terrible product. It costs too much, and it doesn’t do anything useful. The recruiters who can connect me to jobs are already stalking me based on...
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Using Agile to Teach Agile
By Cindy Solomon, from her blog on Startup Product The first Startup Product Academy stand-alone, full day course was Intro to Agile on December 16, 2013 in Oakland, CA. Startup Product Academy is a...
View ArticleMob Programming at ShesGeeky?
I volunteered heavily for Railsbridge from about 2009 to 2011, and intermittently since then when I had time between projects. When I “tuned in” again in fall of 2013, I found the organization has been...
View ArticleOn Engineer Poaching
I had a conversation yesterday with a scrum master at a large corporation whose department is trying to transition to Agile. Among the team’s challenges was a practice of managers on other projects...
View ArticleHow to become a scrum master
A.K.A. “How to get that first scrum master job.” I’ve answered this question twice in the past two weeks, and when it came up again today on a mailing list, I figured I’d cross post here. Basically, it...
View ArticleMob Programming with Woody Zuill
The team space contains two tables facing a large (10’ x 5’) projection area. It feels like the split-screen arrangement I’ve seen many developers using, only much, much larger. It’s easy for all six...
View ArticleMob Apprenticeships?
I volunteered heavily for Railsbridge from about 2009 to 2011, and intermittently since then when I had time between projects. When I “tuned in” again in fall of 2013, I found the organization has...
View ArticleUsing Agile to Teach Agile
By Cindy Solomon, from her blog on Startup Product The first Startup Product Academy stand-alone, full day course was Intro to Agile on December 16, 2013 in Oakland, CA. Startup Product Academy is a...
View ArticleIt’s Really Hard to Look at Yourself (Part 1)
Today I replayed the video of a mastermind group that I’m running. It was painful. I saw so many flaws in how I had led the meeting. I saw people confused by the opening statements. I saw where I hadn’t
View ArticleThe Me/not-Me Barometer (Part 2)
At its heart, Agile is a very simple inspect-and-adapt process. The problem is that simple measures often aren’t comfortable or easy. In my last post, I talked about that moment when a person, team, or...
View ArticleAgile for Life (video)
This is a talk I gave at a Quantified Self meetup describing how I used Agile to transform two areas in my life: personal productivity and a crisis about money in my marriage.
View ArticleYour Operating System
Think about the last time you had to learn something entirely new, which is now part of your daily routine. Maybe it was navigating the commute between home and work. Or coding, or maybe even learning...
View ArticleThe Basics: Iteration
Iteration is the act of a repeated process, or the result of that process. In Scrum, the time dedicated to an iteration is called a Sprint, and I’ll cover that in another article. Today, I’m going to...
View ArticleAgile as a Contemplative Discipline
I’ve been an Agile practioner for 13 years. Like many Agilists, I began using the tools and techniques from my work as a Scrum Master at home as well as at work. There are already quite a few well written
View ArticleThe Lean Startup Circle Rides Again!
Last night I attended the first monthly meeting of the San Francisco Lean Startup Circle. Actually, I attended the first meeting of the San Francisco Lean Startup Circle reboot. The community had lain...
View ArticleDispatch from the Feb 2019 Lean Startup Circle
I led a session on Universal Value Proposition this time, since I’m developing a class around that and wanted the opportunity to practice on people. Having learned from last month, I’d done absolutely...
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