On Agility Archives - Page 13 of 15

22nd October, 2013

Faultless Facilitation – Leveraging De Bono� [...]

In my last post on facilitation, I shared some general principles for facilitating technical outcomes in software teams. Much of the focus was on creating just the right atmosph [...]

Agile Project Management

17th October, 2013

Faultless Facilitation – The Art of Team-Base [...]

Nowadays, I spend 100% of my time in agile teams either engaged in direct coaching, teaching, or participating directly within the team. One of the core tenets of agile teams is [...]

Agile Project Management

15th October, 2013

Characteristics of High-Performing Agile Teams [...]

Jeff Sutherland used to characterize gaining Scrum or agile maturity as a team reaching a high-performing (or hyperproductive) state. He shared stories around these teams on his [...]

Agile Project Management

10th October, 2013

Google 20% Time…Sadly it’s gone!

A few weeks ago I saw an article on LinkedIn that Google had decided to drop its 20% time for its teams. If you’ve been living under a rock, this is one of the most referenced [...]

Distributed Agile Development

8th October, 2013

Agile tooling for Distributed Teams – When is [...]

I was on a coaching call yesterday. One of the early questions was related to tools. The question was: What sorts of tools do I recommend for a new team? I pulled out my [...]

Distributed Agile Development

3rd October, 2013

Building Trust in Distributed Agile Progr [...]

I was listening to a webcast / podcast by Johanna Rothman just the other day. She was sharing on building trust in agile teams, with distributed teams being a focal point. Trust [...]

On Agility

1st October, 2013

User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-2

We left the last post sharing some of Roman Pichler’s thoughts around readiness. Let’s continue… Another way of Describing Ready I personally like a checklist [...]

On Agility

25th September, 2013

User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-1

Have you ever entered a Sprint taking on a User Story that you later regretted? For example: - One that you should have broken down a wee bit more? - Or one where the team had [...]

On Agility

24th September, 2013

What is the "Essence" of agili [...]

I was teaching an introductory level course last week in San Francisco. There were about 30+ people in the room and they had wide variety of experience. Some were absolute agile [...]

Distributed Agile Development

23rd September, 2013

Hello!

Hi everyone, I’m Bob Galen. It is with great excitement and a little nervousness that I write my first blog post for Velocity Partners. I’ve been a customer, collaborator [...]

Category: On Agility

Category: On Agility

Faultless Facilitation – Leveraging De Bono� [...]

Faultless Facilitation – The Art of Team-Base [...]

Characteristics of High-Performing Agile Teams [...]

Google 20% Time…Sadly it’s gone!

Agile tooling for Distributed Teams – When is [...]

Building Trust in Distributed Agile Progr [...]

User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-2

User Stories: Ready, Set, Go! part-1

What is the "Essence" of agili [...]

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