Archive for July, 2006

The Problem with CSM Courses…

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I went to Canada for the first time on Wednesday.  This trip followed hot on the tails of my recent UK jaunt, so I was still reeling from lack of sleep.  The reason for the visit was to run an in-house CSM course, in partnership with a Scrum colleague. The course was being held at [...]

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On Being an Agile Critic

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Boris Gloger and I ran our first public Agile Product Owner course last week in Cambridge, UK.  It was an interesting experience, especially in that we had no actual product owners on the course.  Instead we had a physicist, a software engineer, a CEO, an IT director, a partner, a scrum master, a consultant and a [...]

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Too Many Starbucks

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

It seems that a requirement like “meet me at Starbucks on Wardour Street” is simple enough and leaves little room for misunderstanding.  Or so I thought.  Turns out there are two Starbucks cafes on Wardour Street now, and as a result Jo Cranford and I ended up half a street apart, each breakfasting alone, and [...]

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