Earlier this week at a combined Agile Ottawa/Ottawa Scrum User Group joint event, Joe Little facilitated an entertaining discussion about the basics of Agile release planning. This gathering was instigated by a question at an Agile Ottawa meeting a few months back about whether any sort of release planning happens in an Agile context. Given that much […]
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
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
Mishkin Berteig made a great point last week about how The Agile Planning Onion is Wrong. Mishkin notes that “culture both surrounds the planning onion and cuts right through it” . He goes on to suggest that we update the metaphor to at least allude to the double-loop of learning in order to foster a […]
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
Play is powerful stuff. I had the tremendous good fortune to take part in Play4Agile, an Unconference on games for Agile teams held near Frankfurt, Germany two weekends ago. It was a tremendous amount of fun and a really intense learning experience — there were so many skilled and enthusiastic people there to learn from […]
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
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
Having problems with software delivery? Quality is less than ideal? Business doesn’t talk with IT? I’m sure IT doesn’t even talk with IT! Am I