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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 […]
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 […]
February 25, 2010
When does whole-team collaboration become an impediment and not a desirable quality of the team? For me it has been when the team don’t stop the discussion process and get on with writing software. A change to one of the new features emerged towards the end of the Sprint and after some digging the Product […]
December 8, 2009
If you follow my tweets you’ll know I’m at XPDay at the moment. The opening keynote, by Mark Striebeck of Google, was a very open talk on how they’ve tried techniques to improve the testing within the company, moving it away from an art form into a more science-based activity – starting with doing the Google […]
November 17, 2009
Planning poker is the most common sizing tool used within the Scrum community. Straightforward and fairly quick it can give teams a good idea of what they have in front of them without going too deep into the feature. The fact it has become the method of choice for story sizing means new Scrum teams […]
November 3, 2009
A very American phrase I know; but it hits right at the heart of many of the problems I’ve seen in software development teams, both Agile and waterfall. Put into more understandable terms it means understanding the reason behind what you have been asked to do, be that at an organisational level: Why are we […]
March 25, 2010
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