Do more Less - in fact do much more Less
In my last assignment I found myself in a company in denial. After two years on their agile journey they thought they were making progress, they weren't.Despite being given some basis agile/scrum...
View ArticleSo what is a Coach and what is a Trainer?
There are many people currently discussing the difference in the roles in the Agile world - indeed only this week I read a post suggesting that a Scrum Master was also an Agile Coach (why not eh!)....
View ArticleA Futurespective Method Technique
So I've not invented this or anything - there are a lot of techniques out there for Futurespectives and I've taken this one from "Funretrospectives" (thank you!) and tweaked it a bit - so this is my...
View ArticleDivining Business Value for Agile Projects - Value Mapping, Value Statements...
Mike Cohn once said "Product Owners are often given the vague and mostly useless advice "Prioritise on Business Value"" and he's right.If you read a scrum guide or a paper on prioritisation, or indeed...
View ArticleTransformation troubles and non-technical debt
Technical debt if not managed can end up becoming a critical factor dramatically slowing down future development and in some instances has lead to whole-scale system re-writes just to keep products...
View ArticleDeath by Technical Stories - what is a good Agile story card?
I have received and given training in what makes a "good" Agile story many times and seen many many more story cards that fill me with a sense of dread.A good healthy Agile project needs people to not...
View ArticleWhere am I...
So right now I'm working out how to pull my dfferent posts and blogs together into one place. Mostly I write on LinkedIn these days, but maybe I should bring this back to life again, rather than move...
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