Posts made in juillet, 2013


Well-formed user stories help Agile teams to make the right decisions about what to deliver next.  Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman’s excellent new book, Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis, gives Agile teams practical guidance on planning and analysis practices that will help practitioners explore all dimensions of their product so that they are focused on learning the things that will enable them to deliver...

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Agile Tour is a series of one-day non-profit Agile conferences held in 80+ cities around the world in October and November. Agile Tour conferences provide excellent learning value for not-very-much cost by bringing in top-quality keynote speakers and presenters, and are a great way to meet other Agile folks in your community.   Agile Tour Montreal has been going strong for several years now (they’re planning for 600 attendees in...

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Since this is our first attempt at a collaborative post, Louis-Philippe Carignan and I decided to keep it small and simple by writing a top 10 list. As you’ll notice, the list got away from us! It has become a brain dump of the dysfunctions we’ve observed in various IT environments along our coaching careers. We also added a few tongue-in-cheek items 😉  Top signs you work in a dysfunctional IT environment: Individuals are...

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Au cours des deux dernières semaines, Ellen et moi avons donné ensemble une formation de mise à niveau sur l’Agilité et Scrum : la première en anglais (15 personnes), et la semaine suivante en français (18 personnes). Nous y avons testé avec grand bonheur la simulation Lego basée sur un article d’Alexei Krivitsky. Cette simulation, qui dure en tout 1h30 en incluant la discussion d’apprentissage, consiste à construire un village en 3...

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