The most dangerous phrase I’ve heard in my life as an Agile Consultant
Have you heard this phrase lately: “we’re working on it”?
If you have, you may have found a symptom you should tackle quickly. Learn how in this blog post.
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The Ski Tertulia, a space for generating breakthrough experiments
The Ski Tertulia is a space for learning, in the Alps, with Vasco Duarte and Jacopo Romei.
#MyCoreOfAgile: Global retrospective, what’s the one thing Agile is about for you?
I had an amazing conversation about the Core of Agile with some members of Torino’s local Agile community. We met at Trattoria Valenza. Which was an excellent location to enjoy tradition and look at what we can learn for the future.The conversation touched many points, but the one that I want to talk about is …
Don’t plan to fail! Or how to never be late, never ever! #NoEstimates
Project management methodologies involve some kind of estimates on the content of the project (i.e. scope) and effort/duration (i.e. schedule). Simple techniques like WBS (work breakdown structure) with Gantt Charts or more complex techniques like PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) involve estimating the content and ultimately the duration or effort of each of the …
A #NoEstimates tool: The slicing meeting, replacing estimation meetings while creating shared understanding
Before we start, I’d like to thank to Neil Killick and Woody Zuill for inspiring this technique with their work. Sit down. Let’s estimate This is not a good start of a meeting for many of us. Asking for estimates may be an easy thing to do, but going through the process of estimating Stories …
How to manage risk in Agile?
Unvalidated opinions are “bets”, with the caveat that they beget even more “bets” (decisions based on that opinion). So we can say that unvalidated opinions generate other unvalidated opinions based on the original one, therefore creating exponential growth in risk. The process of validating an opinion (like Popcorn Flow by Claudio Perrone) helps us jump …
How to define purpose for an Agile team? A practical guide to defining purpose and aligning with your organization’s goals
As a Scrum Master, we are often worried about what goes on with the teams we work with. We care about the people. We help the team communicate, collaborate so that they can achieve the team’s goals. However, we often don’t work on a larger goal: the goal of the organization that needs that team. …
5 tools all Scrum Masters should be familiar with. From managing conflict to Lean Startup
Today is Tuesday. I get up and go to work. This Tuesday is the same as every Tuesday. After a few Tuesday’s we get the hang of the work we do. We get familiar. And after the familiar comes the routine and ultimately the boring. Is this how you want your job to be, routine and ultimately boring? …
Agile incremental delivery visualized – how to explain Agile and Incremental delivery to anyone
If you are interested in Agile and if you want to read up on it (reading books, blogs or following discussions on twitter) you soon stumble upon the following picture to visualize incremental value. I believe it’s from Henrik Kniberg: I do understand where this picture is coming from. It is about focusing on value …
ScanAgile 2016 – Help Shape The Conference
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a possible Vision for the 2016 edition of ScanAgile. But that was only my Vision and I was looking for feedback. ScanAgile was, and has always been team work, so when we got together with some of the team members we decided that we needed your …
