Agile Thoughts

This entry is the third in a series of three, which describe the workshops I facilitated at Agile 2008.  The full description/original submission of this session can be seen on the Agile 2008 submissions board: Operating on the Creative Edge: Applying Improvisation Techniques in Agile. 
This was the second year at Agile that Jim York […]

Scrum is not some newfangled, flash-in-the pan methodology for software development (it isn’t a methodology at all, but that is off-topic for this blog).  Scrum is a very small part of a greater movement in the business world, and perhaps the world of organizations in general.  We are at the beginning of a true Kuhnian […]

Guided by a discussion on the Scrum Trainers list I just read Jeff Sutherland’s latest blog, Shock Therapy: Bootstrapping Hyperproductive Scrum, where he quotes the words of Scott Downey, the MySpace Scrum coach, describing his Scrum bootstrapping techniques.
There is something about the approach that disturbs me.  Jeff uses terms like “forceful and mandatory” to describe […]

This entry is the second in a series of three, which describe the workshops I facilitated at Agile 2008.  The full description/original submission of this session can be seen on the Agile 2008 submissions board: Fashion Cycle. 
This session, a mashup of Scrum, Artful Making and Project Runway was an attempt to see how people […]