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Essays from February 2009

2 essays from February 2009

  1. What makes a great company? Recognizing you are not one yet…

    The statement in the title is true even for those that are commonly recognized as great, as they say “here today gone tomorrow”. If you really want to be great you should not shout it out loud at every opportunity, you should recognize what your strengths are, play to them and always, always be on …

    1 min readteams

  2. Tactile sprint planning

    A good friend of mine, James Cooper shared with me this idea about tactile planning. What is it? I asked, he explains it below, but shortly: a great way to get the team to “love” sprint planning! Tactile Sprint Planning explained One of the mantra’s I’ve always liked in Agile is that of continuous improvement. …

    7 min read

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