Check out my recent Stickyminds article, where I distill some ideas I’ve learned recently from folks such as Declan Whelan, Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (see the links in the article for more on those wonderful, smart folks.) And my latest Stickyminds article is on how my team has found ease and joy (to borrow […]
Read MoreStory Mapping the Wrong Way
My new article “Story Mapping the Wrong Way”, a tale of how I messed up our team’s first attempt at story mapping but we learned stuff anyway, is on Techwell and Stickyminds. How fascinating! :-> Traduction en Français, merci à Nicolas Mereaux!
Read MoreRetrospective Fortune Cookies
I learned about Adam Weisbart’s retrospective fortune cookies via Twitter. He kindly sent me a box of them for our team to try. We’ve been doing sprint retrospectives every two weeks for eight years, so it’s always good to get out of our rut and try something new! We each chose a cookie, and took […]
Read MoreACCUS Day 1
The first day of Agile Coach Camp began with each person introducing him- or herself and his-or-her superpower. There were some clever ones. I said mine was getting people to write on the whiteboard, because whenever I do, magic happens, but then Tim Ottinger tweeted his disappointment that my superpower didn’t involve donkeys. The first […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve been writing instead of blog posts!
I have been doing some writing in the past six weeks, in addition to rehabilitating my broken-and-now-healed ankle. But it’s all been published elsewhere. Here are some links: Software Quality Connection, “How to Improve Communication between QA and Development“ SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “Agile development: The whole-team approach” Also on SearchSoftwareQuality.com, “The whole-team approach to Agile development: Examples […]
Read MoreALE Network Bathtub Conference #2
I had the honor of presenting a short webinar talk at the second ALE (Agile Lean Europe) Network Bathtub Conference on June 30. I gave two examples from my team on how we have used experiments to address issues that surfaced in our retrospectives. All the presentations from this terrific event are available on the […]
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