Thursday, November 16, 2006
ABC2006: Kent Beck - Agility is not enough
Posted by Simon Baker
The weasel is agile and fast. But Kent asks "would you trust one? Other than agility what else do individuals, teams and organisations need?" He identified the following: Trustworthiness : People are trustworthy when they do what they say they'll do, promise no more than they can deliver and maintain good intent. Responsibility : "How would you develop if it was your money? Would you spend it on a PRD?" You want low cost and high value delivery. Be aligned with the vision because "it's easier to choose features when you know why you're doing it." And "software is a long game so a sustainable pace if essential." Accountability : "Being accountable is a step towards being considered trustworthy." Be honest. Have nothing to hide. Work in steps of real functionality. And ship early and ship often.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Celebrate every success
Posted by Simon Baker
In work I sit next to Jeff of Coedit . Jeff and his programming partner were working on a story card when Jeff suddenly said "Damn! There's a whole lot of success happening here." First I laughed. And then I turned and said to Jeff "what a great thing to say". And it is. Jeff was clearly buzzed by the progress they were making. And as a coach that kind of enthusiasm in people drives me. Anyway, I digress. My point is this: It's important to celebrate your small successes aswell as your big successes. Any size success is still success. Party on Jeff !
Sunday, November 12, 2006
ABC2006: Attending the APLN Leadership Summit and Agile Business Conference
Posted by Simon Baker
Last week I spent a day at the APLN Leadership Summit and 2 days at the Agile Business Conference . It was the first time I've been to the conference and, on the whole, I'd have to say that I was disappointed. However, conferences always have some gold nuggets, and this one was no different. I'll talk about these in the coming posts. APLN Leadership Summit
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ABC2006: Exploring Agile Factors
Posted by Simon Baker
At the Agile Business Conference I went to the Exploring Agile Factors session hosted by Rachel Davies and Steve Freeman . I'm a big fan of chartering because it helps a team to identify the project vision and its community, the project success criteria, its constraints and assumptions, and it also helps a team to establish working agreements regarding how they will apply agile methods. I came away from this session with lots of new ideas and questions to use in my next chartering workshop.
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ABC2006: Simon Voice of Connections Recruitment
Posted by Simon Baker
Simon Voice at Connections Recruitment Originally uploaded by sjb140470 .
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Retrospective: Attack of the oversized story cards
Posted by Gus Power
For this week's iteration retrospective we tried a homegrown variation on the usual heartbeat format. The idea was to condense the brainstorming and dumb mapping exercises into one activity, using the familiar representation of business value - the story card as a guide.
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Settling into a new bullpen
Posted by Simon Baker
A few weeks back we moved offices. We had to endure 2 weeks back in a pod arrangement but now we've got our new bullpen organised. Here are the pods: old-bullpen Originally uploaded by sjb140470 . Pods before Originally uploaded by sjb140470 . Here's the new bullpen: new-bullpen Originally uploaded by sjb140470 . Settling into the new bullpen Originally uploaded by sjb140470 . Pairing in the bullpen Originally uploaded by sjb140470 .
Team on the planning board
Posted by Simon Baker
Planning Board Team Magnets Originally uploaded by sjb140470 .
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