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Enough Kanban! Use XP for Single-piece flow
Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate (although inflammatory) name for the talk is “Enough Kanban! Use XP...
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Play4Agile Conference – Almost Perfect
I just realized now – a month after the conference – what it was that made Play4Agile a special, magical conference for me. Of course it’s the people, but there is more to it than that. I am writing...
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Agile – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Screencast
Here is a screencast of my presentation on Agile – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This is your chance to hear about the Ugly harsh realities, the Bad news and the Good opportunities for Agile. Along...
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Scrum Alliance Thought Leadership Workshop
There will be a workshop at Agile 2011 on building ideas for improving thought leadership in the Scrum Alliance. Workshop Logistics Thursday 1:30 to 4:00pm in the Open Jam at Agile 2011. We are very...
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Explaining Agile with Lego
At Agile 2011, I spent a lot of my time in the OpenJam running sessions on StrategicPlay® with Lego® so that people would have a chance to experience what I see as a strikingly powerful technology....
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Commitment is to People, not Sprints
There is a lot of debate about Sprint Commitments in Scrum. In my mind, the notion of a Sprint Commitment is an anti-pattern. Of course, personal commitment is critical. Every System has a Natural...
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Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards peace. Our relationships with others form the...
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Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is a Greek word for a transformational container, such as a cut off piece of land dedicated to a king or god. It is a contained space of spiritual...
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Get Your Stories “Ready” to go Fast
I was at a client recently and one VP was convinced that Agile was “untrue” and there was no way it could possibly work. The problem was that he had never heard of backlog grooming or getting stories...
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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos
A friend of mine asked me what is going on with all this touchy-feely people and personal growth stuff – “What’s it got to do with Agile?” My answer: everything! So this post ties together: Agile,...
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Top 10 Agile Gotcha’s
It turns out that most teams have similar types of problems that prevent them from getting the full benefits from Agile. In this presentation, I review the top 10 Agile gotcha’s I have discovered as an...
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Enough Kanban! Use XP for Single-piece flow
Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate (although inflammatory) name for the talk is “Enough Kanban! Use XP...
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Understanding and Working with Agile Culture (Slides)
Here is my current thinking on how I communicate and consult around Agile. For me, it’s all about understanding the desires and wishes of the organization I am working with and mapping that to an...
View ArticleTransformation Case Study Highlights
I was fortunate to act as a catalyst for a transformation of a 100 person departments. Here is an early release of a presentation summarizing my learnings. Transformation Case Study Highlights from...
View ArticleAgile – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Screencast
Here is a screencast of my presentation on Agile – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This is your chance to hear about the Ugly harsh realities, the Bad news and the Good opportunities for Agile. Along...
View ArticleScrum Alliance Thought Leadership Workshop
There will be a workshop at Agile 2011 on building ideas for improving thought leadership in the Scrum Alliance. Workshop Logistics Thursday 1:30 to 4:00pm in the Open Jam at Agile 2011. We are very...
View ArticleExplaining Agile with Lego
At Agile 2011, I spent a lot of my time in the OpenJam running sessions on StrategicPlay® with Lego® so that people would have a chance to experience what I see as a strikingly powerful technology....
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Commitment is to People, not Sprints
There is a lot of debate about Sprint Commitments in Scrum. In my mind, the notion of a Sprint Commitment is an anti-pattern. Of course, personal commitment is critical. Every System has a Natural...
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Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards peace. Our relationships with others form the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is also the name of a special kind of experiential laboratory (usually delivered as a weekend lab) that Siraj Sirajuddin has created over many...
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