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The First Day as an Embedded Coach
August 8, 2007
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The First Day as an Embedded Scrum Master
August 7, 2007
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A banner day.
Finally Embedded
August 6, 2007
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A mission of our team since I joined was to make this happen.
From the Bay of Islands to the Bay Area
July 5, 2007
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Things are coming together really nicely.
Allow the Work to Happen
May 30, 2007
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When you’re at the stand up, listen for the real impediments. They might not be said out loud.
Yahoo! Agile Coach
May 21, 2007
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When I went down to Auckland for some training I didn’t think I’d come back with a job. I had seen a link from an agile website that Yahoo was looking for an Agile coach, but the job had been taken down long before the training. During lunch the second day I mentioned the posting [...]
Definition of Done
May 21, 2007
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It is often heard that the objective of a given sprint is to deliver potentially shippable software. A team can agree on what this means generally for any feature to be ready for prime time. But how does the team know when a specific feature is done? The answer starts in sprint planning. Usually when [...]
My First Facilitation Success
May 7, 2007
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Because I feel responsible for bringing Scrum to my current company, when someone asks me a question about how to do something, I feel compelled to tell them. After all, I am the expert. Without even realizing it I was giving the answer before letting someone think about how they would answer the question. After [...]
Certified Scrum Master
May 6, 2007
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On the 2nd and 3rd of May I went down to Auckland for a class to get certified as a Scrum Master. Thought it might be advantageous since our team has implemented Scrum on my behest and I appointed myself scrum master. At the time I started at the company the things were a little [...]
Release Takeoff
March 8, 2007
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It’s been pretty impossible to get the management team to come up with the total story points in the next release, or for our latest project. Because of this, it makes it very difficult to burn down story points for estimating velocity of getting the next release in to production. After reading around for a [...]
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