We learned that keeping the backlog sized is priceless and that reassigning points is useless.
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Keeping Progress High and Questions Low
February 1, 2012
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Staying Focused at Stand-up
January 27, 2012
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Stand-ups took too long, where we did more talking than we should. Sometimes it took us over an hour for everyone to answer the three questions.
Creating the Motivation to Pair Program
January 23, 2012
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We asked around if people wanted to pair and most were not interested.
Ten Tales of Positive Change – Introduction
January 23, 2012
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Reading that AgileScout is looking for case studies and not just the theory of Agile, I thought I might start posting these stories from my career. This is an IEEE paper that was first published for Agile2011. The paper too long for one blog post. Leaving the tales as close to the original as I [...]
Eliga’s Death Star Café Wins Progress Award
January 20, 2012
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FOR IMMEDIATE HOLONET DISTRIBUTION
ELIGA’S DEATH STAR CAFÉ WINS PROGRESS AWARD
Replacing the Officers’ Mess, Organic Café Wins Cultural Award from the Coalition for Progress
This is a question I asked recently of a newly-formed Scrum team in a User Story Writing workshop. It occurred to me to not just blurt it out and to let them offer suggestions instead. They were very willing to contribute and I’d like to share the answers they came up with:
Inside the #lsmsf Lean Startup Machine
January 25, 2011
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The weekend of 16 Jan 2011, I joined The Lean Startup Machine in San Francisco. Here are some reflections on the experience. The picture to the left links to a book we were all given as homework to read for the event. While I did skim it, along with the Lean Startup Machine page as well as browse the lean startup circle Google group I was still incredibly surprised by how the weekend played out.
Barely Sufficient Scrum
November 9, 2010
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What’s the simplest thing that can possibly work and still be called Scrum?
Applying to Become a Certified Scrum Trainer
June 12, 2010
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The Scrum Alliance is accepting new applicants to become Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) and I’ve decided to throw my hat in the ring. If you would like to know why I am applying, please feel free to read my letter of intent.
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