Agile coaches do not tell the team how to build software. Agile teams are self managing. Whenever anyone tells the team how to resolve an impediment, a little bit of the team’s soul dies.
The Eyeglass Skit is a great way to communicate this important fact.
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Scrum Training
The Eyeglass Skit
Happy Scrum People at Intuit
On December 17 and 18 I held a Scrum training course at Intuit in Waltham, MA. The Intuit folks quickly grokked the importance of understanding and implementing agile principles and values. I found that extremely impressive.
The end result was a group of twenty happy Scrum people.
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Agile Retrospective
An excellent way to perform a retrospective is to ask the Five Whys: Ask why five times to understand the root cause of a problem.
Here is an example:
Problem: The server is slow.
Why #1: Because it is running out of memory.
Why #2: Because the code has a memory leak.
Why #3: Because it was not tested...
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Introduction to Agile: Schedule and Agenda
I believe that agile games are the best way to create the conditions for soul shifting personal and organizational transformation. All of my agile courses are centered around games.
The agenda below shows the schedule of a typical one day Introduction to Agile course. The day features half a dozen games.
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