Category: Scrum
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L’Agilité, bonheur et efficience
Lors d’un récent mandat dans une grande institution bancaire au Canada, on m’a confié le mandat de guider des équipes vers l’Agilité. Cette opportunité était une belle occasion de démontrer une fois de plus la puissance de l’Agilité dans un contexte imparfait. Pourquoi imparfait? Ces nouvelles équipes se situent dans un environnement au milieu de…
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Top 10 signs you are a Product Clerk and not a Product Owner
You never actually used a similar product. You were never annoyed by the limits of existing product (competing or not) You understand the high level basics of the needed solution. No more. You answer almost every question with “I’ll go ask” Since your main source of input is the development team, your Product Backlog is…
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Joy of Agile – On the plane!
Attached are excerpts of the internal news bulletin of an organization we started coaching in 2008. They had the courage to do things differently and are now reaping the benefits. Being in the avionics industry, the challenges in adopting an Agile approach were immense. But the highly capable team members and management at CMC Electronics…
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10 ways to be happy on an Agile project
In the last few days, I’ve been getting messages with joyful and happy themes attached to them. I was then prompted to ask myself why some people are downright miserable working within an Agile framework, while many others would not have it any other way. Thinking of various individuals from different teams and industries, I tried…
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Devil’s Project
Don’t update that burndown chart Close your eyes and stay in the dark If the ghouls and goblins were to see It would mean trouble for you and me Those demons are really scary Filling the Backlog with all kinds of stories Scope is increasing by the hour If they don’t stop soon, their heads…
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Agile Coaching : Baby Steps or Bad Precedence?
How do we go about to instill an Agile mindset and help teams deliver quality solutions? The two main strategies are the “Big Bang” and pilot project approach. I’ve never had the opportunity to go ahead with a Big Bang, so the alternative has been to find a cool project, get a team together, Scrum…
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Agile Coaching – Maybe all you can do is send a Hallmark card
As agile coaches helping organizations transition to a different way of doing things, are we doing a disservice to our clients by accepting a mandate that we know deep down will most certainly fail? Are we failing to recognize the fact that any attempt for a particular client to adopt an agile approach to software…
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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.…