What’s Safe in SAFe?
To be fair, I’ve been fairly critical of some aspects of the Scaled Agile Framework. And even though I’m a SPC, I still don’t blindly install SAFe in many of my [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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Larger-scale Retrospectives
If you’ve followed me at all, you know that I worked at a company called iContact from 2009 – 2012. It was one of the best agile experiences of my life, both professi [...]
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Agile Task Estimation - Necessity or Was [...]
Agile task breakdown and estimating can be a difficult conversation to have with teams. I had a conversation with one of our teams several days ago and we were discussing decomp [...]
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Modified Scrum Penny Game - An Agile Exercise [...]
In my last post, I mentioned that I ran an exercise – the Modified Penny Game – with one of the teams in Medellin. The Leading SAFe course includes the original [...]
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ScrumMasters – Protecting the team from…“ [...]
In my classes I often liken an aspect of the ScrumMaster role to that of a sheepdog. That an important part of their role is protecting the team. Often the direction of this [...]
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The TDD Mindset (1/2)
We always hear that Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software design technique which is focused on tests. Given that we have to write tests before code, our mindset can easily [...]
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Revisiting the Agile Notion of Value
In the Agile Product space there are a few figures who are leading the way. Jeff Patton – leads the way from an innovation and creativity perspective. Jeff’s storymapping [...]
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Kanban Considerations for Agile Teams
I’ve had quite a few clients over the years who have wanted to adopt Kanban as their agile process. For some of them, using it is absolutely the right choice. For many [...]
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Chartering, Lift-off, Setting the Stage, From [...]
One of my favorite, old-time rock groups is Emmerson Lake and Palmer. And their song From the Beginning seemed appropriate for this article. One of my new favorite voices in our [...]
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