Auteur : Eric Laramée
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Présentation à Agile Montreal : Est-ce que l’engagement est mort?
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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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Agile Coaching –The Pickle Principle
Ever heard of Prescott’s Pickle Principle? It states that “cucumbers get more pickled than brine gets cucumbered” As an Agile coach, you are that cucumber bravely diving into a pool saturated with sodium chloride called “The Corporation” In an Agile transformation context, it’s about the challenges the Agile coach faces when trying to be true…
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Agile Coaching – Working with the 4 Social Styles
As an Agile Coach, what’s the first thing you do when you walk into the meeting room? Well, I observe and listen. I pay attention to individual behavior and the interactions before, during and after the meeting. Then I start labeling! Sounds horrible doesn’t it? But it really isn’t. It might also seem as if…
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Hope to meet you at Agile 2011 Conference!
Once again, I’ll be at the Agile Conference from August 8th to the 13th…And I can’t wait! (Even if I wasn’t successful in getting my session through…I got over it 😉 ) Flying through the Program Guide, I’ve identified what I would like or love to see. This is just an initial plan – a…
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Agile Coach’s Powerful Questions
Last June, I had the great opportunity to attend Lyssa Adkins’ and Micheal Spayd’s Coaching Agile Teams course in Montreal, Canada. They truly have a unique and lean approach to sharing their knowledge and experiences. One of the skills we worked on is the ability to ask Powerful Questions (PQs) Powerful questions… Are truly open…
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Is commitment dead?
The rate of organizations moving from waterfall to Agile software development practices is staggering! Scrum being the most popular Agile framework, development teams are suddenly being ask to commit to delivering a specific amount of functionality every 2 to 4 weeks. The pressure is immense and committing to something in software development, even for a…
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Agile Coach Camp 2011 in Montreal – An organizer’s experience.
There’s this movie with a famous saying : “Build it and they will come”. That was pretty much our thinking for Agile Coach Camp 2011 in Montreal over a year ago. The initial idea to hold the 2011 Coach Camp in Montreal was spawned by Ellen Grove (who lives in Ottawa, Canada) and suggested it to…
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Leaving a family and joining a new one.
I recently made the difficult decision to leave Pyxis. I didn’t just leave a company, but also a family. I started at Pyxis in 2004 and what an amazing roller-coaster ride it was! I was first hired by François Beauregard as programmer then moved on to become a ScrumMaster and the last three years were…
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My top posts of 2010
Top 3 : 1. 10 ways to be happy on an Agile project 2. Scrum Easy Install 3. Can’t wait to go home and hug my resource! Looking forward to a new year of blogging! Cheers!