Tag: agile-2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Pomodoro-powered promiscuous pair-programming
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile 2008, Gus attended a session about the Pomodoro Technique by Stefan Noteberg and has been using it since.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Beer helped
Posted by Simon Baker
When Energized Work turned one year old back in June we started to give a lot more attention to our ideas to develop the company. We decided it was time for action. While attending Agile2008 in Toronto, we talked and talked over beers in the bar at the top of the CN Tower and talked some more in Fynn's of Temple Bar. Since then we've been beavering away behind the scenes, occasionally alluding to progress in my tweets.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Welcome to Agile Skywalker
Posted by Simon Baker
I've invited our effervescent friend Nana Abban to contribute to the blog. Nana joined the crew a while back and we invited him to join us at Agile2008 where he did a splendid job drawing attention to us. Those of you at the conference will remember him as Agile Skywalker. That's him in the t-shirt. And that really is his job title.
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Craftsmanship and Artful Making
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile2008, in his banquet keynote, Uncle Bob proposed over execution" be added to the Agile Manifesto as the fifth value statement. I've blogged before about the lack of craftsmanship in software development and it continues to concern me.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The natural laws of software development
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile2008, I watched Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson talk about the natural laws of software development.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Converting business value into actual money
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile 2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn't work and suggested developing attributes for backlog prioritization that drive profitable growth. In terms of what we've been doing at one of our clients using throughput accounting this means increasing revenue without significantly increasing investment and decreasing costs without impacting throughput (or the capacity to deliver).
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A 'nut it out' norm
Posted by Simon Baker
I really like the idea of having a team norm in place to help deal with interpersonal conflict. The norm would require the people involved in the conflict, as part of their membership of the team, to work together (with the help of a facilitator; aka Scrum Master) to find the root cause of their conflict. Basically get in a room and work it out before the conflict gets bigger and pulls the whole team down. The people involved are required to bring their analysis and agreement to the next retrospective and report it to the team so that everyone learns from the experience.
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Lack of humble pie leaves bitter aftertaste
Posted by Gus Power
A cornerstone of the agile community is collaboration. However, I came away from Agile 2008 feeling slightly deflated. Over the past few months one of our teams cited the lack of respect as the root cause for the breakdown in collaboration they were experiencing. A lack of respect is in itself a symptom of something else more fundamental - the absence of humility. Humility is not self-debasement but rather the ability to get over ones own ego and false pride. The humble person genuinely listens with interest and without conceit to other peoples' points of view. Humility creates context for the open exchange of information and ideas regardless of the difference in experience of the people involved and sets a stage for shared learning.
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Friday, August 8, 2008
Discovering what business value is and what to do about it
Posted by Simon Baker
Joe Little's session was interesting. Basically, you need to define what business value is for your product and that definition may evolve over time.
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