Agile development talks about producing valuable software, with the aim of delivering potentially shippable solutions at the end of each iteration. For me these have always been two distinct ideas: valuable software – a small piece of functionality that adds to the system ; not necessarily a complete feature, but not dependant upon any other… [Read more…]
June 24, 2010
The first session I proposed at the Agile Coach Camp in Germany was on comfort zones; a topic close to my heart as I was in a foreign country, unable to speak the language, talking to a group of people I’d never met before. I may have been slightly outside of my comfort zone. Oh,… [Read more…]
June 2, 2010
Back in April I proposed a workshop session at the Agile Business Conference (still waiting to hear back but I’m not holding my breath), not letting the fact that I have never presented at a conference before stop me. The reason for this rather rash decision was that one of my goals for the year… [Read more…]
May 4, 2010
So, this isn’t my first time reading Esther Derby and Diana Larsen‘s book, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. However, having ordered a new copy (the old one is lost in the depths of my office) I decided to take it with me to Agile Coach Camp Germany and read on the journey. You can… [Read more…]
April 21, 2010
So was Open Volcano 10 a success? Did a new groundbreaking idea emerge during the day? Simply put: yes and no (or at least I didn’t come across one). There was a real energy about the day that seemed to come from not only the calibre of the speakers stranded in the UK but also the very… [Read more…]
April 20, 2010
A number of the Agile jet set find themselves in London due to some unpronounceable Icelandic volcano, so instead of sitting around a waiting for the ash cloud to let them go home they decided to set up a OpenSpace conference. In a day. Starting with a few twitter messages and no fixed home the conference… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
I attended the first Rachel Davies’ Agile Coaching Skills course at SkillsMatter and found it full of useful stuff that I can put straight into practice. The course did not seek to explain Agile techniques or methodologies, instead focusing on the people skills an effective coach needs. For me this was a real plus of… [Read more…]
March 15, 2010
This will be my first book review since I left school in the mid-nineties: I’ve set on a plan of reading one book a month, and to review the book so that I improve not only my writing but also my understanding of the book itself. First up is Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz… [Read more…]
March 11, 2010
The project I’ve been working on the for the last few months is slowly grinding to a halt; the requirements are becoming vaguer by the day, with questions spawning more questions. In an organization that isn’t particularly pro-active these means that some decisions aren’t made until it is too late. This has recently been joined… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
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