Suppose you need to choose the ScrumMaster for your team and there is no „natural“ candidate available. Suppose you have two alternatives who could do the job, but you are not sure who fits best? I got a similar question proposed some time ago by one of my customers. Instead of giving my answer, I … Weiterlesen …
If you have followed my blog, you know that I am somewhat critic of root cause analysis like the „5 Whys„, especially when applied to non-purely-technical issues. On the other hand I am actually pretty much in favour of more systemic tools like the Cause-Effect Diagrams and the Thinking Process, despite the risk of using … Weiterlesen …
Last week, together with Yves Hanoulle (twitter: @YvesHanoulle), I presented again „Soft Skills Essentials for Software Craftsmen“, this time at XPDays Benelux. Here are the slides: Sie sehen gerade einen Platzhalterinhalt von Standard. Um auf den eigentlichen Inhalt zuzugreifen, klicken Sie auf den Button unten. Bitte beachten Sie, dass dabei Daten an Drittanbieter weitergegeben werden. … Weiterlesen …
Agile has been a refreshing wind of change in the software development world. A very much needed one, actually. Yet, I believe these days a big part of the agile community is stuck in a cul-de-sac called the teams! What’s wrong with teams? Nothing really. Except that… they are just a model! A team is … Weiterlesen …
Here’s a short post just to publish the slides I presented today at the WebExpo in Prague. Sie sehen gerade einen Platzhalterinhalt von Standard. Um auf den eigentlichen Inhalt zuzugreifen, klicken Sie auf den Button unten. Bitte beachten Sie, dass dabei Daten an Drittanbieter weitergegeben werden. Inhalt entsperren Erforderlichen Service akzeptieren und Inhalte entsperren Weitere … Weiterlesen …
As you have probably noticed – in case you did not fall asleep while reading these pages – I am a strong believer in the solution focused approach and I wrote already several articles about it (see this and this and this). The approach generated interest in many of my peers, so over time I … Weiterlesen …
I recently had a situation where two teams based in two different locations had to start working together on a project. While waiting for a planned face to face meeting between them, I used the following technique to prepare each team for the upcoming meeting. When establishing a new co-operation with another team, each team … Weiterlesen …
This is a short post to share the slides of the presentation I gave today at XP 2010 in Trondheim about how to implement a community of practice in your organisation to spread the experiences about agility among teams. Here they are: Sie sehen gerade einen Platzhalterinhalt von Standard. Um auf den eigentlichen Inhalt zuzugreifen, … Weiterlesen …
Here’s a short post to publish the slides and the handout for the third version of my Solution Focused approach to Agile Coaching presentation. This time I gave it at the Mini XP Days Benelux 2010, a one day conference with the presentations that were voted the best at the XPDays Benelux 2009. It has … Weiterlesen …
Last week I went to Kraków for the first edition of the Agile Central Europe conference. The news is that the conference was, IMO, a great success for the organisation led by Paul Klipp, so here’s a short report about it. The city I was never in Kraków before (and, for what matters, I was … Weiterlesen …
As I had announced in my last post, I talked to day at Agile Central Europe, again presenting my Solution Focused approach to Agile Coaching workshop. In Kraków I had less time available compared to the XPDays Benelux version, but I still managed to add a few more information on the subject, in particular clarifying … Weiterlesen …
This time I will use this space for some shameless self-promotion about the upcoming public speaking events I will be part of. After the good resonance for the „Solution Focused Coaching in Agile“ presentation I gave at XP Days Benelux, I will bring it again on tour during April: April 7th and 8th in … Weiterlesen …
I attended recently a meeting of project managers where „agile methods“ was the subject of the evening. In fact, the whole evening was about Scrum, with three presentations trying to frame Scrum as a project management method. On one side it was good to see Scrum getting visibile to an audience that normally reasons in … Weiterlesen …
Yesterday Martin Heider and I moderated a German version of The Bottleneck Game at the Java Users Group Erlangen-Nürnberg. The game simulates a production line that is improved by applying the 5 focussing steps from the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu Goldratt. Here are the slides from the session: Sie sehen gerade einen Platzhalterinhalt von … Weiterlesen …
So the definition of done of a Scrum team is sick and you, dear agile coach, are intervening on the team to get them to fix it. Easy, isn’t it? Either you tackle the issue during a retrospective or on in ad-hoc discussion, point out the symptoms, ask the team how they plan to fix … Weiterlesen …
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