Agile Thoughts

It surprises me, but I have recently come across a few people in the Agile field who prefer estimating in “real time” over estimating in size (e.g. story points); I have even heard statements such as: the most advanced implementations of Agile use real time estimates, because it offers the most powerful benefits. My […]

In teaching Scrum during the past year, and working with organizations in a consulting/training capacity I have found more and more that some of the principles as outlined in the two Scrum books are out-dated and unhelpful. I teach what I know works and what I see as being appropriate; there are slight differences […]

More pictures…
The crum SEx change… playing with words and with ideas, playing intellectually and physically, talking, thinking, laughing, moving, telling stories, writing poetry, celebrating failure, finding new questions, interacting, listening, feeling, dialog, conversation, passion, digging down (how low can you go?), exploring really tough questions… and then there was the […]

The Scrum Exchange (SX) in Palo Alto, California is just three weeks away, so I thought it was time to start blogging about it.  In this post I’ll give a brief summary of my experience in organizing this event; later I’ll add posts about the event itself, and I hope other attendees will also contribute […]

Scrum In A Box

So… they say that Scrum is not an “off the shelf” methodology.
Well, wouldn’t it be nice if it was?
Time to create Scrum In A Box – the ultimate off-the-shelf methodology for the smart, bargain-hunting Software Process Shopper.
With this amazing new product all need for CSM training will be eliminated. 
Get the Box, and […]

The Falklands War, 1982, Diego Maradona and the Hand of God, 1986, Andreas my next-door-neighbor in London, 1993-99,  The ear-torturing Evita, 1978, German refugees, polo, the tango, red wine, high quality beef…  Yep, that’s about it, the extent of my knowledge of Argentina prior to this visit.  I have not learned a great deal more […]

Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I am here to teach a two-day public CSM course.  To the best of my knowledge, this will be the first public CSM course to be taught in South America: an exciting, and scary prospect.  I speak no Spanish and my lame attempts to use BabelFish to translate some of […]

Last week I had the privilege of working with an organization in the UK who take Scrum seriously, and understand that it is more than a quick fix. The director/VP level management realise that it will take time for Scrum to show benefit and more importantly they understand the need to trust their development […]

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 […]

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 […]