Catégorie : Agile

Is your team is interested in new approaches to encouraging meaningful discussion about big opportunities or challenging problems? Playing with Lego can help! Serious fun can result in serious work getting done in not a lot of time, with a lot of laughter along the way. Lego Serious Play is a playful approach to tackling…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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 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…