Category: Agile
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Building Your Dreams at Agile India 2014
I had a great time presenting a User Requirements with LEGO Serious Play workshop at Agile India 2014. Sharing LSP with a new crowd is always fun, and the 100+ people who participated were enthusiastic and ready to play! One lovely surprise from my session was the amazing graphic summary Lynne Cazaly created: "Build your…
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The Team Responsibility Game
I love games for learning – playing about serious matters allows people to drop some of the filters and barriers that may unconsciously affect how group discussions unfold and really explore ideas. And the laughter and drama of playing a game that involves body, mind and emotions in order to learn about something helps ensure…
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De l’importance de commencer les mêlées quotidiennes à l’heure
Avoir un horaire régulier pour la mêlée quotidienne est une règle de Scrum qui est considérée par plusieurs Scrum Masters débutants comme optionnelle. Pourtant, c’est leur responsabilité, en début de projet, quand l’équipe vient d’être créée, de renforcer cette règle. Vous pensez « Vaut mieux attendre pour commencer, car tout le monde n’est pas arrivé? »…
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Vote for “Discover To Deliver” class to be offered in Ottawa! (or Montreal!)
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…
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Interested in presenting at Agile Tour in Ottawa or Montreal?
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…
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Top signs you work in a dysfunctional IT environment – A pair-brain dump with Louis-Philippe Carignan
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.…
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Simulation Lego : un retour d’expérience
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,…
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Introduction to Lean & Agile Work: presentation to IEEE Ottawa
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of presenting “An Introduction to Lean and Agile Work” to one of the IEEE Ottawa SIGs As a prelude to the conversation, we played a simple variant of the penny game in order to spark some lively discussion and great questions to frame the rest of the evening. We then…
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Scrum has no meetings
Sprint Planning: It’s not a meeting. It’s an opportunity for collaborative product development. Daily Scrum: It’s not a meeting. It’s an opportunity to share how we plan to get something done and receive feedback from our colleagues. Sprint Review: It’s not a meeting. It’s an opportunity to showcase the most amazing product ever and realize…
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Steward the living instead of managing the machine: Management 3.0
“..the role of leaders should include the stewardship of the living rather than the management of the machine.” Stoos Network Management 3.0 is a class for people interested in bettering the practice of management in their organizations. It’s based on Jurgen Appelo’s very popular book, which examines the kind of management thinking and doing needed…