Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
From somewhere not so agile and written from a documentation writer’s perspective. We’ve all heard this story… Too many bugs to fix for the Beta 1 milestone? Punt them to Beta 2. Of course during the Beta 2 milestone you fix some of the high priority ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Or… The evils of hope and the endless battle of crushing math versus the reasoning power of our lower bowels.
We’ve all been there at one point or another. Half way through an iteration and things aren’t going quite as planned.
The team of four engineers has two weeks left on their ...
Tags: agile, Management, Parallel book, Scrum, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Thanks to everyone who attended my workshop on the Scrum Bestiary today at Agile 2009. You can download the deck here. It comes with speaker notes so isn’t completely incomprehensible. The original Scrum Bestiary can was written up as a series of blog posts and summarized ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In a somewhat unusual turn of events I’ve actually found the time to write my decks for Agile 2009 early this year. This never happens! I invariably arrive at the venue with a 90% complete deck and fill in the blanks as I talk to attendees. However, this ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The deadline for submissions to Agile 2009 rapidly approaches! It’s Feb 13th. We’re busy reviewing submissions for the Agile & Organizational Culture stage and I’m sure the other stages are busy too. If you’re not planning on giving a talk you can still attend the ...
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