Author: Eric Laramée
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The so-called polluted Product Backlog
Warning: The following post might provoke a mild aneurism to some scrum purists. Don’t you love a nice, clean and deep Product Backlog, filled only with strong user stories tightly linked to clear business objectives and estimated by business value and story points? As an Agile coach working with large organization with even larger challenges,…
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Agile Coach Camp Canada – Any suggestions?
It’s almost T-minus zero for the 2010 Agile Coach Camp! This open space forum for Agile coaches will be held on June 11th and 12th in Waterloo Canada and will be a great opportunity to see how our profession is evolving and practiced in the field. Being in an open space format (which I love)…
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Are we only having fun?
Like most of you, I’ve had my fair (or unfair) share of meetings. Some were great and a lot of them were just ok. But a few weeks ago a colleagueof mine said something during a ROTI evaluation that forced me to look back at all those previous “great” meetings and re-evaluate their TRUE value.…
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10 signs that the collaboration between a Product Owner and a development team is defective
No one knows who the Product owner is Tasks in Sprint Backlog are dictated by the Product Owner The team’s default behaviour is to assume what the Product Owner wants The Product Owner doesn’t understand that great new feature presented during the Sprint Review All features presented during the Sprint Review are refused by the…
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An Agile Marketing Plan
The ScrumMaster is one busy bee! If the team is less than fully self-organized, her plate can be quite full. If the organization is less than Agile, there isn’t a “Certified ScrumMaster shovel” big enough to handle all the issues that arise. Every day, she tries to improve the development team’s engineering practices, productivity and…
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An Agile coach’s journey into PMI country – Where PMI got cocky.
My journey is actually the PMI bootcamp – A five day course to prepare for the PMP certification, completed with fellow Agile coach – and it has allowed us to see some great stuff. To the left, we had beautiful Rolling Waves and to the right, Progressive Elaboration. Most days were warm and sunny in…
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An Agile coach’s journey into PMI country – Day 1 – I’m very disappointed!
It feels good to have a common enemy, someone or something to hate or discredit. What this usually does is create a sense of unity between individuals who share a common view. We do this with programming languages (Java vs. .Net), philosophies (Waterfall vs. Agile) and even within those philosophies (Scrum vs. DSDM vs. Crystal…
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My Top 10 Agile events of the decade
My Top 10 Agile events of the decade 1- Creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001 2- Kent Beck re-exposes Test Driven Development in 2003 3- First Agile Conference in 2003, held in Salt Lake City 4- Ken Schwaber releases Agile Project Management with Scrum in 2004 5- Mike Cohn releases Agile…
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A Christmas Retrospective
‘Twas the night before Christmas And Santa was dizzy Trying to grasp Why things got so crazy The plan was perfect Created by experts But the elves on the floor Knew so much more What if we’d Scrummed it Santa as P.O. An ordered backlog And of course the retro A Lift-Off would be…
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I just want my coffee!
My current client is located near a McDonald’s so it has become my office away from the office. The main features of this location are wireless internet connection and of course, lots of coffee. To my surprise, the coffee at McD’s is pretty good! But getting a cup of it is a tad bitter. The…