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New talks on comaking posted
Last year, Jeff gave talks in Melbourne, Australia for the YOW! conference and in San Francisco at Qcon. Both talks are about our comaking philosophy. The recording from the YOW! conference is Jeff’s presentation. It’s a split screen, showing both … Continue reading
Where do non-functional requirements go on a story map?
The easy answer is anywhere you want. Relevant at the Activity Level Non-functional requirements (NFRs), also called quality constraints, seem most relevant at the activity level on the map. With a map on the wall you might write them as … Continue reading
Dealing With an Overwhelming Amount of Work
I located a job as an Agile Coach working at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. I worked with a group of internal coaches, offering both training and coaching for the nearly 500 teams that were experimenting with the Scrum framework … Continue reading
Creating the Motivation to Pair Program
My first immersion in to Scrum occurred at StorePerform. We produced workflow solutions for big box retail stores. The company retained an external coach on contract and we attended training, which eased and accelerated the transition. Throughout the time we … Continue reading
an experiment – don’t come to standup today
What does the Scrum Master do in the role, besides facilitate the daily standup? Have you ever thought perhaps a team was too dependent on the Scrum Master for this meeting? What have you done to address this issue? Right … Continue reading
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Agile Team Members – Roles and Responsibilities
The following was written by myself and edited by my manager to help define roles in our group. Modifications have consisted of removing any reference to the specific group. This is largely influenced in the writing by David Anderson‘s book … Continue reading
Leading a Retrospective Before Introducing Kanban to a Team
Introduction On September 25th I facilitated a Product-level retrospective. The purpose of this retrospective was to look back at how user stories find their way to production, and to find ways to shorten the process and increase quality. The format … Continue reading
Kanban System for Software Engineering
Kanban System for Software Engineering – KSSE Introduction Definitions Roles Acronyms Metrics Queue sizes Process Getting Things into TIP and on through to production Self-organization Get Things Done Releasing Constraints Other Interesting Work Kaizen Generating and Verifying Acceptance Criteria Stand-up … Continue reading
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