Dear and Gentle Reader, Attending the local Lean Agile Coffee, the question arose “How can we get a team to start pair even if they all hate the idea”? Ever…
While I’m finishing the wool-gathering for the last post in my Social History/Neuroscience of Agile series, here’s some reflections on the last couple of retrospectives and what’s going on around…
So, last time, I blathered on about The History of the World in Three Minutes. The most important point, and I hope this was clear, was the the Industrial Revolution…
Humans as humans have been around for roughly 200,000 years. Some of the first are still waiting in line at the DMV. It took that long to get to around…
Ok, I’ve been nudged back into blogging action by my recent contact with the Agile community in the Bay Area (San Francisco if you’re looking at a globe). Here are…
<rant> I need to blow off a little steam. There's a habit that I see around me all too often. We propose a process improvement, and it requires the use…
David Allen (the Getting Things Done guy) discusses lists versus calendars in his latest email/blog post. This relates to a point raised in a book I've just finished reading Wait:…
Apparently so. Who knew that that dear old Circumlocution Office had it in them. Check this out. Shame it’s back in dear old Blighty, as I’ve a feeling that the…
I was asked the other day why I’d posted on this blog about the apparent war between science and religion. What did that have to do with it all? Well,…
Poking around the interwebs asking “Do you speak Agile?” I found this remarkable post: Magic Estimation. I thought Planning Poker was the most efficient way to have those doing the…