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- [An Agile coach’s journey into PMI country – Day 1 - I’m very disappointed!](https://agilepartnership.com/an-agile-coachs-journey-into-pmi-country-day-1-im-very-disappointed/) - It feels good to have a common enemy, someone or something to hate or discredit. What this usually does is create a sense of unity between individuals who share a common view. We do this with programming languages (Java vs. .Net), philosophies (Waterfall vs. Agile) and even within those philosophies (Scrum vs. DSDM vs. Crystal
- [Agile Open Montréal - 2025](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-open-montreal-2025/)
- [« Why Did I Fire the Boss? »](https://agilepartnership.com/why-did-i-fire-the-boss/) - Si cette affiche au mur d’une organisation en Turquie cherche à provoquer une réaction, elle a réussi! Même si elle utilise sûrement l’exagération pour communiquer un message clair sur sa culture, je ne peux m’empêcher de vivre une forme de contradiction interne. D’un côté, je trouve ça inspirant! L’affiche communique sans ambiguité qu’il s’agit d’une
- [OKR pour transformer la stratégie en action](https://agilepartnership.com/okr-pour-transformer-la-strategie-en-action/) - Le 28 novembre, les coachs d’Agile Partnership ont eu le plaisir de participer à l’Agile Tour Montréal. Dans les prochains jours, nous publierons une série de billets pour résumer les sessions qui nous ont le plus interpellés. Voici le cinquième et avant-dernier! 🙂 Lors de leur présentation à l’Agile Tour Montréal, David Plessis et Valérie
- [LAUNCHPAD ](https://agilepartnership.com/launchpad/) - Structurer l’innovation dans les opérations : la formule des Launchpads Le 28 novembre, les coachs d’Agile Partnership ont eu le plaisir de participer à l’Agile Tour Montréal. Dans les prochains jours, nous publierons une série de billets pour résumer les sessions qui nous ont le plus interpellés. Voici le quatrième! 🙂 Dans les entreprises, le
- [Agilité et simplicité...](https://agilepartnership.com/agilite-et-simplicite/) - Retrouver l’essentiel pour transformer nos organisations. Le 28 novembre, les coachs d’Agile Partnership ont eu le plaisir de participer à l’Agile Tour Montréal. Dans les prochains jours, nous publierons une série de billets pour résumer les sessions qui nous ont le plus interpellés. Voici le troisième :) Dans sa session intitulée "Agilité et simplicité :
- [Un écoquartier en agilité : l’expérience HEC Montréal avec LESS](https://agilepartnership.com/un-ecoquartier-en-agilite-lexperience-hec-montreal-avec-less/) - Le 28 novembre, les coachs d’Agile Partnership ont eu le plaisir de participer à l’Agile Tour Montréal. Dans les prochains jours, nous publierons une série de billets pour résumer les sessions qui nous ont le plus interpellés. Voici le deuxième! Lors de l’Agile Tour Montréal, Isaline Gauche et Jean-François Pilon ont présenté un projet audacieux
- [L’intrapreneuriat pour réenchanter l’innovation](https://agilepartnership.com/lintrapreneuriat-pour-reenchanter-linnovation/) - Le 28 novembre, les coachs d’Agile Partnership ont eu le plaisir de participer à l’Agile Tour Montréal. Dans les prochains jours, nous publierons une série de billets pour résumer les sessions qui nous ont le plus interpellés. Voici le premier! Réenchanter l’innovation au Québec grâce à l’agilité et l’intrapreneuriat avec Sylvain Éthier L’innovation au Québec
- [Réinventer le coaching agile](https://agilepartnership.com/reinventer-le-coaching-agile/) - Le coaching agile a atteint son apogée il y a un certain temps et suite à une saturation du marché, a quasiment disparu du paysage des affaires. Son déclin s’explique par plusieurs raisons : la banalisation du titre de “coach agile” qui a dilué sa valeur, la perception par les entreprises d’un plateau de performance,
- [Mon boss est un robot!](https://agilepartnership.com/mon-boss-est-un-robot/) - NetDragon Websoft, une entreprise chinoise spécialisée dans le développement de jeux vidéo, a fait les manchettes en 2022 en nommant une intelligence artificielle nommée Tang Yu comme co-PDG. Cette décision qui était limitée au plus haut poste de l’entreprise ouvre maintenant la porte à une réflexion plus large sur l’avenir du management dans un monde
- [Agile en 2028 - Hypothèse ou espoir?](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-en-2028-hypothese-ou-espoir/) - J’me lance dans d’la pure spéculation avec la prédiction qu’il y aura un abandon complet des transformations/évolutions/rénovations/rigodons agiles telles qu’on le connaît aujourd’hui d’ici…2028. “Ouin, Eric. Pas très spéculatif ton affaire. C’est déjà bien entamé. Tu connais CapitalOne??” J’en ajoute… Tout comme le très populaire Rational Unified Process (RUP), un cadre de développement logiciel itératif
- [Mob Programming et équipe agile. Le match parfait!](https://agilepartnership.com/comment-le-mob-programming-peut-aider-une-equipe-agile/) - Connaissez-vous le Mob Programming (aussi connu sous le nom ‘ensemble programming’)? Savez-vous comment cette merveilleuse pratique peut aider une équipe agile?
- [Quelles sont les différences entre l’Agile Open et l’Agile Tour?](https://agilepartnership.com/quelles-sont-les-differences-entre-lagile-open-et-lagile-tour/) - Agile Open est un événement organisé autour d’un ordre du jour ouvert, où les participants sont libres de proposer et d’organiser leurs propres sessions et discussions. Le format repose sur l’idée de groupes “auto-organisés” et l’émergence de sujets de discussion, plutôt que d’avoir un horaire prédéterminé de présentations et de conférenciers. Agile Tour s’appuie plutôt
- [Les petits clips Spark the Change!](https://agilepartnership.com/les-petits-clips-spark-the-change/) - What could go wrong? Break the cycle Have you considered going to Spark the Change? It'll get better. I can feel it. Change per floor Who wants change? Billets disponible ici Spark the Change, c’est quoi ? Spark the Change rassemble des gens de plusieurs industries afin d’échanger et de discuter du changement dans
- [Agile Partnership @ Agile Tour Montréal 2018](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-partnership-agile-tour-montreal-2018/) - Encore cette année, l'équipe Agile Partnership sera à votre service lors de l'édition 2018 de l'Agile Tour Montréal, le 15 novembre au Palais des congrès. Nous avons très hâte de vous revoir et échanger sur plein de sujets! Ne manquez surtout pas... Le rituel du Cadeau dans votre communauté de pratique avec Stéphane Bourque et
- [Spark the Change, une passion](https://agilepartnership.com/spark-une-passion/) - Il y a deux ans, en discutant avec Jonathan Braunstein (expert en développement organisationnel) et Stéphane Bourque (coach agile) dans une journée de Forum Ouvert, nous avons souhaité qu’il existe à Montréal un événement qui regrouperait des gens qui ont des expertises similaires mais qui proviennent de cursus différents et de champs d’expertise différents, histoire
- [Business Agility Conference (NYC) - Session sur les contrats agiles](https://agilepartnership.com/business-agility-conference-nyc-session-sur-les-contrats-agiles/) - Facilitateur/présentateur: Mirko Kleiner (lean-agile-procurement.com») En retardant le démarrage d’un projet à cause d’un processus lourd d’allocation de projet basé sur des requis détaillés, les valeurs et les principes de l’agilité ne sont pas respectés. Non seulement y a-t-il de la perte de temps et d’argent des deux côtés (client et fournisseur), mais en plus, on
- [Conférence Business Agility (NYC) - session sur Beyond Budgeting](https://agilepartnership.com/conference-business-agility-nyc-session-sur-beyond-budgeting/) - La conférence Business Agility, qui en était cette année à sa deuxième édition (New York City, 14-16 mars 2018), vient de se terminer et je reviens la tête pleine d’idées et le sac (littéralement) plein de livres et d’articles à lire. Je vais publier régulièrement dans les prochaines semaines des billets sur les conférences qui
- [6 Toxic Sentences in the Workplace](https://agilepartnership.com/6-toxic-sentences-workplace/) - “If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.” - Betty Eadie I decided to use this quote as an introduction to this article. Words, very often, carry a lot in meaning, and not everyone is good at weighting the potential impact that a remark, be it
- [6 phrases toxiques en milieu de travail](https://agilepartnership.com/6-phrases-toxiques-en-milieu-de-travail/) - “Si nous comprenions le pouvoir impressionnant de nos mots, nous préférerions le silence à presque tout ce qui est négatif” - Betty Eadie J’ai décidé de laisser la place à cette citation en guise d’introduction. Les mots, souvent, pèsent lourd, et tous ne sont pas très habiles pour pondérer l’impact potentiel qu’une remarque, qu’elle soit
- [This week in agile - February 5th 2018](https://agilepartnership.com/week-agile-february-5th-2018/) - Here are a few agile related articles that caught my attention for the week of February 5th 2018. [bscolumns class="one_half"] Scaling Agile with Agility: A Focus on Teams "...isn’t adopting agile a complex problem? And, isn’t the whole reason why we have adopted agile to solve complex problems? Shouldn’t we approach the agile adoption in
- [This week in agile – January 29th 2018](https://agilepartnership.com/week-agile-january-29th-2018/) - Here are a few agile related articles that caught my attention for the week of January 29nd 2018. [bscolumns class="one_half"] The five trademarks of agile organizations 1. North Star embodied across the organization 2. Network of empowered teams 3. Rapid decision and learning cycles 4. Dynamic people model that ignites passion 5. Next-generation enabling technology
- [This week in agile - January 26th 2018](https://agilepartnership.com/week-january-22nd-2018-agile-related-articles-caught-attention/) - Week of January 22nd 2018 : Articles that caught my attention
- [Agile Partnership @ Agile Tour Montréal 2017](https://agilepartnership.com/3266-2/) - Encore cette année, les coachs d'Agile Partnership » seront à votre service lors de l'édition 2017 de l’Agile Tour Montréal au Palais des congrès. À ne pas manquer… Mieux décoller pour mieux atterrir avec Isabelle Therrien »(14:15-14:30) [box] Un décollage de projet» qui est fait en totale transparence avec le client met les bases de la confiance,
- [Teams with Sprint Reviews vs. Teams Without](https://agilepartnership.com/teams-with-sprint-reviews-vs-teams-without/) - Dear PO, Now that we have Refinements, Plannings, Standups, and Retros.. the last practice missing from our scrum game are Sprint Reviews. Here are 4 reasons how they contribute to healthy teams & innovative products: Your servant always, The scrum master
- [Agile Partnership @ Agile2017](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-partnership-agile2017/) - If you’re at the Agile2017 conference in Orlando this week, don’t miss Ellen’s workshop « Asking over Telling: Using humble enquiry to build trust and do great work » with Bruce Scharlau. More asking, less telling. As an agile leader, adopt the approach of humble enquiry to build relationships, increase trust and collaboration, and deal with the
- [Les 11 nuances de la valeur d’affaires](https://agilepartnership.com/les-11-nuances-de-la-valeur-daffaires/) - Le focus d’un Product Owner (PO) doit porter sur la création de la valeur d’affaires (Why) plutôt sur la présentation/développement du produit (How). C’est dans cet esprit que nous vous présentons une série de questions qui, nous l’espérons, serviront à alimenter votre réflexion afin de déterminer quel valeur (impact) vous créerez pour vos utilisateurs! Comment
- [La culture organisationnelle - Un résumé d'Alexandra Lapointe](https://agilepartnership.com/la-culture-organisationnelle-un-resume-dalexandra-lapointe/) - Une fois par année, j'ai l'opportunité de présenter un sujet lié à l'agilité aux étudiants à la maîtrise en génie logiciel de l'UQAM. L'année dernière, le sujet fut la culture organisationnelle et comment celle-ci peut aider ou nuire à une transformation vers un état d'esprit dit agile. Alexandra Lapointe, étudiante du groupe, a gracieusement accepté
- [Agile Partnership @ Agile Tour Montréal 2016](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-partnership-agile-tour-montreal-2016/) - Nous sommes très fiers de participer à la 8e conférence Agile Tour Montréal qui se déroulera au Palais des congrès le 16 novembre 2016! Plusieurs de nos coachs auront la chance de présenter des sujets qui les tiennent à coeur et vous faire profiter de leurs expériences. Ellen Grove Collaboration extrême avec le Mob Programming
- [L’Agilité au cœur de la donnée, ça fonctionne!](https://agilepartnership.com/lagilite-au-coeur-de-la-donnee-ca-fonctionne/) - Ma récente expérience au sein d’un group BI (Business Intelligence) m’a confronté à une problématique intéressante. Comment arriver à arrimer l’agilité au sein d’un groupe dont la donnée est l’incrément de logiciel? Mon approche dans cet écosystème consiste à discuter de valeur. La valeur n’est pas dans une action du logiciel, mais l’information que livre
- [L’Agilité, bonheur et efficience](https://agilepartnership.com/lagilite-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
- [Agile Product Design avec David Hussman](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-product-design-avec-david-hussman/) - En collaboration avec ELAPSE Technologies, David Hussman est de retour au Québec pour offrir sa formation sur le "Agile Product Design". Ne manquez pas cette chance unique d'apprendre de l'un des professionnels les plus expérimenté et respecté de l’industrie ! Résumé Apprenez avec David Hussman à développer le bon produit, celui qui correspond à vos besoins ou à
- [Premier rassemblement de coachs agiles - le 12 mai 2016](https://agilepartnership.com/premier-rassemblement-de-coachs-agiles-le-12-mai-2016/) - Jeudi le 12 mai dernier, près de 30 coachs formidables se sont réunis au Pub Quartier Latin pour échanger, apprendre et partager. Après quelques minutes de discussions informelles, certains groupes se sont laissés tenter par un Lean Coffee. Ce format permet de structurer une conversation de façon très efficace tout en s'assurant que chacun en
- [Rapport d'expérience - w.illi.am](https://agilepartnership.com/rapport-dexperience-w-illi-am/) - Au printemps 2014, chez w.illi.am, les employés étaient très motivés, très fiers de leur travail, mais il y avait des problèmes de délai et bien souvent la firme devait absorber les augmentations de budget pour les projets avec des clients externes, des clients qui ne partageaient pas nécessairement les ambitions de w.illi.am d’aller vers des
- [Les présentations des coachs d'AP à l'Agile Tour Montréal 2015](https://agilepartnership.com/les-presentations-des-coachs-dap-a-lagile-tour-montreal-2015/) - Encore une fois, Agile Tour Montréal fut un grand succès avec une brochette impressionnante de présentations et d'ateliers. Il est impossible de tout voir et vous aviez surement des choix déchirants à faire. Il nous fait donc plaisir de partager avec vous les présentions des coachs d'Agile Partnership. Mettre sa culture organisationnelle nue d'Éric Laramée
- [Mettre sa culture organisationnelle à nue - Le "Making of"](https://agilepartnership.com/mettre-a-nue-sa-culture-organisationelle-le-making-of/) - Le défi de partager un sujet complexe, simplement. Voilà une des raisons pourquoi j'aime offrir de courtes présentations lors de différentes conférences comme l'Agile Tour. On attribut à Mark Twain la citation suivante : I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. Garder simple sans réduire
- [Fearless Journey Solitaire with Deborah Hartmann Preuss @ Agile Tour Montreal](https://agilepartnership.com/fearless-solitaire-with-deborah-hartmann-preuss-agile-tour-montreal/) - Join the change-agent coach, Deborah Hartmann Preuss, for a demo of Fearless Solitaire, or an hour one-on-one coaching, in English or French at Agile Partnership's booth during Agile Tour, November 13th in Montreal. Leading change can be tough, when you find yourself imagining a future others cannot see yet. When sparring-partners are scarce, and you
- [Mode d’emploi pour un décollage de projet Agile](https://agilepartnership.com/mode-demploi-pour-un-decollage-de-projet-agile/) - Demain soir, mercredi 9 septembre 2015, je présente à Agile Montréal ma conférence sur le décollage de projets Agiles. Je me suis inspirée de ma propre expérience, mes propres outils, mais aussi du livre "Liftoff" de Diana Larsen et Ainsley Nies. Inscription et information À demain!
- [#grateful for everything at Agile Coach Camp Canada East 2015](https://agilepartnership.com/grateful-for-everything-at-agile-coach-camp-canada-east-2015/) - I went back from the Agile Coach Camp in Cornwall on Sunday, and all I had in mind was this word: gratitude. Of course, I’m grateful for this week-end, the organizers, the facilitators, the venue, everything. But it’s more than that: I felt that we were submerged all week-end long by a river of gratitude.
- [Agile Coach Camp Canada East 2015 in Cornwall - we'll be there!](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-coach-camp-canada-east-2015-in-cornwall-well-be-there/) - We were there in 2008 near Detroit, Michigan, for the very first Agile Coach Camp in the world. We were there in 2010 when they held the first Agile Coach Camp Canada. We organized the following ones, in 2011 (Montreal) and 2012 (Ottawa), and were participants in 2013 (Toronto) and 2014 (Guelph). This year
- ["En avril, parlons Agile!" : la suite](https://agilepartnership.com/en-avril-parlons-agile-la-suite/) - J’ai récemment fait une courte présentation au PMI-Montréal (communauté de pratique ExcELLE) sur l’Agilité, suivie d’une longue période de question : « En avril, parlons Agile ». J’ai laissé les gens poser des questions sur des post-it en début de séance avec l’intention de les regrouper, de faire voter les gens sur les sujets les plus populaires afin
- [Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin': Using Story Cubes to jazz up team retrospectives](https://agilepartnership.com/rollin-rollin-rollin-using-story-cubes-to-jazz-up-team-retrospectives/) - Are you looking for a simple way to liven up your retrospectives? In my coaching engagements, I often encounter teams that are having ineffective retrospectives because they always take the same approach to framing the discussion. Using the same format for every retrospective preordains a very similar conversation each time, and it won’t take long for team […]
- [Doing Trumps Reading: Training from the Back of the Room Workshop June 5-6 2014](https://agilepartnership.com/doing-trumps-reading-training-from-the-back-of-the-room-workshop-june-5-6-2014/) - What’s the best training experience you’ve been in? Take a moment to put yourself through the retrospectoscope and consider what made it memorable for you. Maybe it was a Scrum training. Or a ski lesson. Or perhaps a first aid class. I’m willing to bet that whatever type of training it was, you’re not fondly […]
- [Think With Your Hands!](https://agilepartnership.com/think-with-your-hands-2/) - Our own Ellen Grove on InfoQ! Ellen teaches improving personal development using the Lego Serious Play thinking, communicating and problem solving technique.
- [Building Your Dreams at Agile India 2014](https://agilepartnership.com/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 […]
- [The Team Responsibility Game](https://agilepartnership.com/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 […]
- [De l’importance de commencer les mêlées quotidiennes à l’heure](https://agilepartnership.com/de-limportance-de-commencer-les-melees-quotidiennes-a-lheure/) - 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? »
- [Vote for “Discover To Deliver” class to be offered in Ottawa! (or Montreal!)](https://agilepartnership.com/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 […]
- [Interested in presenting at Agile Tour in Ottawa or Montreal?](https://agilepartnership.com/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 […]
- [Top signs you work in a dysfunctional IT environment – A pair-brain dump with Louis-Philippe Carignan](https://agilepartnership.com/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.
- [Simulation Lego : un retour d'expérience](https://agilepartnership.com/simulation-lego-un-retour-dexperience/) - 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,
- [Introduction to Lean & Agile Work: presentation to IEEE Ottawa](https://agilepartnership.com/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 […]
- [Scrum has no meetings](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Steward the living instead of managing the machine: Management 3.0](https://agilepartnership.com/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 [...]
- [Ahoy mateys: Swashbooking yer learnings!](https://agilepartnership.com/ahoy-mateys-swashbooking-yer-learnings/) - I firmly believe that Sunday mornings are best observed with a pot of hot coffee and a book or two to enjoy. So at Play4Agile2013 in February, on Sunday morning I pitched a Swashbooking session as one of the early slots in that day’s Open Space (though in my sleep-deprived and slightly hung-over state, I’m [...]
- [Getting my hands dirty at Ladies Learning Code – Intro to Ruby workshop](https://agilepartnership.com/getting-my-hands-dirty-at-ladies-learning-code-intro-to-ruby-workshop/) - While no one who knows me well would be inclined to refer to me as a ‘lady’, last Saturday I spent a very interesting day getting acquainted with Ruby alongside 40 other women at a workshop offered by Ladies Learning Code. Ladies Learning Code is a young Canadian non-profit whose goal is to introduce women [...]
- [Games with Distributed Teams at Play4Agile 2013: An unexpected takeaway](https://agilepartnership.com/games-with-distributed-teams-at-play4agile-2013-an-unexpected-takeaway/) - One of the most vivid sessions I took part in at the Play4Agile conference in Germany last month was a session on Games for Distributed Teams. Led by the amazing Silvana Wasitova, this discussion built on the preceding session about “Games in 5 Minutes” to explore how these activities can be used with distributed teams. [...]
- [La confrontation au service de la performance @ Agile Tour 2012 Montréal et Québec](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-tour-montreal-et-quebec-la-confrontation-au-service-de-la-performance/) - Agile Tour Québec Agile Tour Montréal Description de la présentation: La problématique du « collègue dysfonctionnel » existe dans la plupart des équipes et l'évitement est souvent la première stratégie. En informatique, les délais de livraison sont souvent très courts et la compétition est constamment à nos trousses. Éviter les discussions
- [Agile Partnership sera très présent sur la scène Agile en Novembre](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-partnership-va-etre-tres-present-sur-la-scene-agile-en-novembre/) - En Novembre, nous serons présent à l'Agile Tour Montréal dans le cadre de trois conférences, soit: Isabelle Therrien - Comment décider quand on est 7 à le faire? Eric Laramée - La confrontation au service de la performance Ellen Grove - User Requirements with Lego Serious Play Et il ne faut surtout pas oublier que
- [November 2012 : The month of Agile!](https://agilepartnership.com/november-2012-the-month-of-agile/) - November 2012 will be a busy month for Agile! November 6th : Agile Tour Québec City Novembre 7th : Agile at the PMI-Montréal Symposium Novembre 24th : Agile Tour Montréal Novembre 28th : Agile Tour Ottawa-Gatineau Hope to see you at one or more of these events! Cheers!
- [The right to fail and the unacceptable alternative](https://agilepartnership.com/the-right-to-fail-and-the-unacceptable-alternative/) - Every now and then I'm confronted with a manager who is profoundly against the idea of a team's or individual's right to fail. A few years ago, I'd be taken aback by such a stance and react in a very nonconstructive way. Today, with a some experience, desensitizing, professional distance and a lot of coaching,
- [Please don't declare yourself 'Agile' when...](https://agilepartnership.com/please-dont-declare-yourself-agile-when/) - You constantly change the direction of your product Your meetings are disorganized and without objectives As a team member, you decide to work on something completely out of scope You categorically refuse to put in some extra hours to get the job done You reject all that is PMBoK You don't have a plan I
- [7 dangers of Agile software development](https://agilepartnership.com/7-dangers-of-agile-software-development/) - Efficiency without fun Talking without listening Simplicity without viability Self-organization without leadership Motivation without direction Iterative without incremental Product without vision
- [Le management à la base de l'Agilité](https://agilepartnership.com/le-management-a-la-base-de-lagilite/) - Dans cette conférence de Simon Sinek, il est question des motivations profondes qui font que les gens sont heureux et qu'ils s'investissent dans ce qu'ils font. Et, oh surprise, un des constats est que l'argent n'est pas le motivateur principal de la majorité des gens mais que c'est plutôt la qualité de la relation que
- [Podcast - Discussion sur Valve : Handbook for New Employees](https://agilepartnership.com/podcast-discussion-sur-valve-handbook-for-new-employees/) - Lors de la dernière rencontre d'Agile Partnership, nous avons fait une activité très enrichissante inspirée par Deborah Hartmann Preuss. Le concept est simple... Ingrédients : 4 personnes 4 livres (ou autres lectures) Exécution : Chaque participant découvre son livre comme il le veut pendant 10 minutes (lire la table des matières, lire un paragraphe, regarder les
- [Comment décider quand on est 7 à le faire?](https://agilepartnership.com/comment-decider-quand-on-est-7-a-le-faire/) - Certes, la prise de décision en équipe est moins rapide que lorsqu’elle est prise par un seul individu. Chacun doit s’exprimer, il faut organiser des rencontres, produire des comptes-rendus, gérer des situations conflictuelles, et tout cela coûte cher. Dans certains cas, il peut même être risqué de communiquer toutes les informations nécessaires. Pourtant, nous avons
- [Encore une réunion? Mais je n'ai jamais le temps de travailler pour vrai!](https://agilepartnership.com/encore-une-reunion-mais-je-nai-jamais-le-temps-de-travailler-pour-vrai/) - Dans vos réunions, avez-vous déjà constaté les symptômes suivants? Les gens challengent souvent l’importance de leur présence aux réunions Les décisions de rencontres passées sont souvent reconsidérées Les gens présents oublient les décisions qui ont été prises Certaines personnes présentes n'ont pas compris que des décisions avaient été prises à la réunion Tout le monde
- [Why LEGO Serious Play works](https://agilepartnership.com/why-lego-serious-play-works/) - “The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression.” - Dr. Stuart Brown, in a magnificent TED talk on the importance of play (posted here in case you haven’t already seen it): I know that I overuse the word “magic” to describe what happens during LEGO Serious Play (LSP), but I can’t [...]
- [Podcast - L'empirisme au service de la vision d'entreprise](https://agilepartnership.com/lempirisme-au-service-de-la-vision-dentreprise/) - Une discussion informelle pendant notre rencontre mensuelle a généré notre premier podcast! Comment les projets pourraient-ils être au service des grands objectifs de l’organisation? Comment se fait-il que plusieurs entreprises ont l’impression d’avoir des objectifs clairs et publiés, mais qu’en fait plusieurs employés n’y adhèrent tout simplement pas? Pourquoi les missions sont rarement prises au
- [Agile Partnership lance un p'tit bonjour à Agile Coach Camp France](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-partnership-lance-un-ptit-bonjour-a-agile-coach-camp-france/)
- [Présentation à Agile Montreal : Est-ce que l'engagement est mort?](https://agilepartnership.com/presentation-a-agile-montreal-est-ce-que-lengagement-est-mort/) - Est-ce que l'engagement est mort? View more presentations from elaramee
- [C'est complexe d'avoir une équipe réellement agile](https://agilepartnership.com/complexe-avoir-equipe-agile/) - Me voilà de retour à la maison, verre de vin à la main, en train de repenser à toute la générosité de François Beauregard à sa présentation de ce soir à Agile Montréal. La phrase-choc du jour : « le leader a l’organisation qu’il mérite ». Électrochoc. Les organisations n’ont jamais été aussi complexes. Les sujets de réflexion
- [43 sleeps until Play4Agile 2012!](https://agilepartnership.com/43-sleeps-until-play4agile-2012/) - I’m very much looking forward to participating in Play4Agile 2012 in Germany next month. Last year’s inaugural event was such an amazing experience that registration for this year’s unconference sold out in less than 12 hours. I registered for p4a11 one year ago today, thinking that I would take a bit of a busman’s holiday [...]
- [Top 10 signs you are a Product Clerk and not a Product Owner](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Un Forum Ouvert riche en interactions](https://agilepartnership.com/un-forum-ouvert-riche-en-interactions/) - Mercredi dernier, j'ai facilité un Forum Ouvert* pour le groupe Agile Montréal**. Nous étions une trentaine de passionnés de l'Agilité à partager nos expériences. Nous avons eu 2 séances de 40 minutes, sans pause. Nous avons ouvert l'espace pour une infinité de séances en parallèle, et il y en a eu 5, et parfois 6,
- [La croissance, oui ou non?](https://agilepartnership.com/la-croissance-oui-ou-non/) - Tout d’abord, demandons-nous pourquoi une entreprise de services croît généralement. En générant des revenus supplémentaires, elle pourra se permettre une structure d’opérations qui contient des gens qualifiés et spécialisés (marketing, ventes, finances); elle pourra permettre à ses employés d’approfondir leurs connaissances ou de faire diverses activités qui ne génèrent pas de revenus. L’entreprise dégage de meilleures
- [Mon expérience de l'Agile Tour 2011](https://agilepartnership.com/mon-experience-de-lagile-tour-2011/) - Samedi, 29 octobre 2011, 7h30. Jour de l’Agile Tour 2011. Quand je me fais déposer au pied des marches du 200 Sherbrooke Ouest en ce magnifique samedi matin, il n’y a absolument rien qui me rappelle la folie du quotidien de semaine. Les bruits sont sourds et le calme règne. Avez-vous déjà conduit au centre-ville
- [Agile Coaching –The Pickle Principle](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Think with your hands!](https://agilepartnership.com/think-with-your-hands/) - 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 [...]
- [Agile Coaching – Working with the 4 Social Styles](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Hope to meet you at Agile 2011 Conference!](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Agile Coach's Powerful Questions](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-coachs-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
- [Taking a Few Trips Around the Elephant: A quick and dirty guide to release planning](https://agilepartnership.com/taking-a-few-trips-around-the-elephant-a-quick-and-dirty-guide-to-release-planning/) - 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 [...]
- [Is commitment dead?](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Agile Coach Camp 2011 in Montreal – An organizer's experience.](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-coach-camp-2011-in-montreal-an-organizers-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
- […because Agile teams burn HOT!](https://agilepartnership.com/because-agile-teams-burn-hot/) - 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 [...]
- [Leaving a family and joining a new one.](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Steps for creating a new game](https://agilepartnership.com/steps-for-creating-a-new-game/) - 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 [...]
- [My top posts of 2010](https://agilepartnership.com/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!
- [Joy of Agile - On the plane!](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [It's finally here! Scrum Easy Install® 2.5](https://agilepartnership.com/its-finally-here-scrum-easy-install-2-5/) - 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 right?! Don't diddle daddle with annoying coaches and expensive training. ALL you need to do is stick our Scrum - Easy Install® CD in your computer and press GO. In just
- [10 ways to be happy on an Agile project](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Devil's Project](https://agilepartnership.com/devils-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
- [Can’t wait to go home and hug my resource!](https://agilepartnership.com/cant-wait-to-go-home-and-hug-my-resource/) - It’s been a tough yet fulfilling week. Now that it's over, I finally get to go home and give a huge hug to my 11 year old resource! You might have guessed, but I’m talking about daughter who I love more than anything! But since she’s simply a resource, I can easily replace her with
- [Agile Coaching : Baby Steps or Bad Precedence?](https://agilepartnership.com/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
- [Recommended viewing: The Biology of Business](https://agilepartnership.com/recommended-viewing-the-biology-of-business/) - Hat tip to Thom Kearney for drawing my attention to this great presentation:
- [Meeting Expectations](https://agilepartnership.com/meeting-expectations/) - A member of a team I’m working with recently observed that the team’s design workshops were much more effective when she (and everyone else) came to the meeting prepared with an agenda, examples of the problem space and some other concise reference materials related to the design discussions. Having this pre-work (and pre-thinking) in place [...]
- [Definition of DONE of an Agile Transition.](https://agilepartnership.com/definition-of-done-of-an-agile-transition/) - Any questions?
- [Agile 2010 Conference – Day 1](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-2010-conference-day-1/) - I went to my first Agile Conference! I guess I’m always a bit uneasy when I’m surrounded by people who more or less think the same way I do. On the other hand, it feels great! It’s a stark contrast from what I’m used to - you know, being surrounded by Architects, DBAs, PMOs and
- [Watching the garden grow…](https://agilepartnership.com/watching-the-garden-grow/) - I had the rare delight today of participating in an Agile lunch and learn at a client’s site. There have been a series of successful lunch and learns there over the past several months, but this one was different in many ways. An Agile lunch and learn attended by a few dozen people, despite the [...]
- [Playing to Learn](https://agilepartnership.com/playing-to-learn/) - Learning can be fun. Heck, let’s just get straight to the point and state unequivocally that learning should be fun, dammit! Learning through play is also a powerfully effective way for people of all ages to acquire and accumulate new concepts and practices. Current neuroscience suggests that using a variety of approaches to concretize ideas [...]
- [Agile Coaching - Maybe all you can do is send a Hallmark card](https://agilepartnership.com/agile-coach-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
- [The Agile Coach's Charter](https://agilepartnership.com/the-agile-coachs-charter/) - As an Agile Coach, I commit to... Never apply recipes Respect your distinct culture Help you challenge your current culture, principles and practices Let you learn from your mistakes Not let you make irrecoverable mistakes Help put in place an empirical process that allows learning Allow you to evolve within that empirical process Allow the
- [The so-called polluted Product Backlog](https://agilepartnership.com/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,
- [Agile Coach Camp Canada – Any suggestions?](https://agilepartnership.com/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)
- [Are we only having fun?](https://agilepartnership.com/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.
- [A tale of horror (from XKCD)](https://agilepartnership.com/a-tale-of-horror-from-xkcd/) - Campfire
- [10 signs that the collaboration between a Product Owner and a development team is defective](https://agilepartnership.com/10-signs-that-the-collaboration-between-a-product-owner-and-a-development-team-is-defective/) - No one knows who the Product owner is Tasks in Sprint Backlog are dictated by the Product Owner The team’s default behaviour is to assume what the Product Owner wants The Product Owner doesn’t understand that great new feature presented during the Sprint Review All features presented during the Sprint Review are refused by the
- [An Agile Marketing Plan](https://agilepartnership.com/an-agile-marketing-plan/) - The ScrumMaster is one busy bee! If the team is less than fully self-organized, her plate can be quite full. If the organization is less than Agile, there isn't a "Certified ScrumMaster shovel" big enough to handle all the issues that arise. Every day, she tries to improve the development team's engineering practices, productivity and
- [Is it an apple, an orange, or a kumquat?](https://agilepartnership.com/is-it-an-apple-an-orange-or-a-kumquat/) - Great post by Dave Nicolette asking “Why is it so hard to find a clear definition of ‘Agile’?” . Go on over and read it.
- [An Agile coach’s journey into PMI country – Where PMI got cocky.](https://agilepartnership.com/an-agile-coachs-journey-into-pmi-country-where-pmi-got-cocky/) - My journey is actually the PMI bootcamp - A five day course to prepare for the PMP certification, completed with fellow Agile coach - and it has allowed us to see some great stuff. To the left, we had beautiful Rolling Waves and to the right, Progressive Elaboration. Most days were warm and sunny in
- [My Top 10 Agile events of the decade](https://agilepartnership.com/top-10-agile-events-of-the-decade/) - My Top 10 Agile events of the decade 1- Creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001 2- Kent Beck re-exposes Test Driven Development in 2003 3- First Agile Conference in 2003, held in Salt Lake City 4- Ken Schwaber releases Agile Project Management with Scrum in 2004 5- Mike Cohn releases Agile
- [A Christmas Retrospective](https://agilepartnership.com/a-christmas-retrospective/) - 'Twas the night before Christmas And Santa was dizzy Trying to grasp Why things got so crazy The plan was perfect Created by experts But the elves on the floor Knew so much more What if we'd Scrummed it Santa as P.O. An ordered backlog And of course the retro A Lift-Off would be
- [I just want my coffee!](https://agilepartnership.com/i-just-want-my-coffee/) - My current client is located near a McDonald’s so it has become my office away from the office. The main features of this location are wireless internet connection and of course, lots of coffee. To my surprise, the coffee at McD’s is pretty good! But getting a cup of it is a tad bitter. The
- [The Scrum Hawks](https://agilepartnership.com/the-scrum-hawks/) - I guess you’ve all heard about chickens and pigs in Scrum. A client of mine just offered me a new one: The Scrum Hawk. He explains it like this : “When SCRUM is new to an organization, the first couple of sprints will likely not go as well as planned. At this point, the scrum
- [What about the team?](https://agilepartnership.com/what-about-the-team/) - What about the team? Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This basic core value stated in the Agile Manifesto implies so much it's hard for anyone to totally grasp it. As an Agile coach I owe it to myself and to my clients to properly understand this value and do my best in helping
- [Scrum is like an onion...](https://agilepartnership.com/scrum-is-like-an-onion/) - Scrum stinks? I don't think so. Scrum makes you cry? I've seen it happen. You leave Scrum out in the sun, it gets all brown, start sprouting' little white hairs? No! Layers! Scrum has layers! The outer layer of Scrum is the high level process. This includes the ceremonies of Scrum such as the daily

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