What is a sprint demo? Agile teams using Scrum work in a time box called a sprint to get software built early and often. A meeting is held at the end of each sprint with the whole team including product owner and anyone else who would like to attend. The goals of the demo are [...]
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A new client of mine new to Agile has the entire team located in one office except for one person, a DBA living in Texas, one time zone away. I want the local team to benefit from having a highly visible team task board, which usually means cards/stickies posted on the wall like the picture [...]
Read MoreI consider Mike Cohn one of the best on the topic of Agile estimation. His 90 min presentation on how to estimate is well worth your time. I took his one day course and all of the material in the presentation appears to come from that course. Mike is truly inspired to find the best [...]
Read MoreIf you are thinking about attending the Agile one day work shop at Plone Symposium East, register by end of today, April 30 to get free bonus coaching after wards. Contact me if you have any questions about the course.
Read MoreSo you’ve gone over requirements, and have an idea of what needs to be done, then the client/project manager pops the question developers dread: How long will it take? Then, depending on your situation, you might: Give a number based on gut feel Look at historical numbers for something of a similar size Call a [...]
Read MoreIf you are going to the Plone Symposium East, or considering going, this post is for you. I’m offering a one day course on the fundamentals of Scrum, the most popular Agile software development framework. It’ll be a fun, hands-on experience, using games instead of Powerpoint slides to teach. The catch is I need 10 [...]
Read MoreGames are a fun, interactive, effective way to teach. A dose of competition mixed with social interaction keeps people engaged. You learn by doing and reflecting on the experience. Powerpoint, your time is over. Until recently, I hadn’t had the opportunity to use learning games, since most of my work as an Agile coach is [...]
Read MoreAgile, Python, QA, Rational Unified Process and Ruby on Rails. IT folk in Sault Ste. Marie got a smorgasborg of technology, tools and processes at the Innovation Centre’s Software Development Best Practices Workshop. I was the warm-up act, introducing Agile and I chose to do that through a learning game. 5 teams worked on a [...]
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Read MoreTwelve (12) emerging best practice for adding user experience work to agile software development: The first time I’ve read about successful patterns of UX Agile work. Pass around.
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