Agile Teams
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We do a lot of training here at LitheSpeed, and our exercises are consistently among the most popular parts of our courses. We’ve had many requests over the years from participants, coaches and other trainers to use some of these exercises when instructing teams, and since we’ve garnered many of them from the community ourselves, we tend to readily accede.
Here is one...
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I've recently finished reading this book, Clever, by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, who work alongside Gary Hamel at the London Business School.
Gary Hamel I'm sure you know has written...
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When a developer posed a question to his Twitter followers a couple of weeks ago about collaboration between agile teams and the business side of the organization, a coworker passed...
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Here is an article I read recently that I found really interesting. It's an introduction to complexity theory and provides some insight into human behaviour and why agile works...
Introduction...
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Agile is often the subject of an entire IT transformation within an organisation. But what is IT transformation?
Transformation means different things for different organisations...
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The real question sent to me was:What are some tips for integrating our SCRUM model with non-Scrum groups who will not be adopting the process?One can go many places with this question,...
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Many organizations segregate their programmers and testers in order to achieve independent validation of requirements. If the system is tested according to an independent interpretation...
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As a senior manager, one of the most valuable things you can do for any development team is to create an organizational structure that enables stable teams. Permanent, lasting teams;...
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As larger organizations are diving into using Agile methods, we hear a lot of questions about how teams integrate various specialities and skill distributions. One common question that...
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Recently, I attended two retrospectives. Different teams, different states, different facilitators. I’m usually on the other side, leading retrospectives.
Both retrospectives...
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Do you know how to run a really productive meeting? I don’t. I’m learning, and I run meetings with various success so far. My most recent insight is related to the size of a meeting...
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Inevitably, there will be some change to your team. Someone will leave or perhaps you will have new members joining you.
Either way, you will be asked the question “Where should...
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Whatever thing we do, what is our attitude? In work or in much of the rest of life, I think our attitude should be some interesting combination of humble and aggressive.
My business...
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