The Global Agile Practitioner Network
If you’ve never met Jake Calabrese, you should find a way to. He makes me happy every time I see him at a conference or get a text from him. Mostly, it’s due to him being an absolute wacko who […]
Authors note: The examples in this post are from a client who is using a mix of Scrum, XP, and Kanban in SAFe. You can apply any of these concepts to any framework, it’s framework agnostic! Also shameless plug I […]
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill I don’t know many men who have had the privilege to discuss with their fathers what it truly means to be a […]
“When the number of options available are limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and move on with life. To behave otherwise is to waste precious time and energy.” William […]
Oh, boy, I failed again! I recently facilitated an event where at one point I struggled mightily. As I reflected on how I might have done better, I recalled the note and vote technique: Note and vote (aka Nominal group […]
The 2020 Trilogy Years have brought to light the level of challenge that exists in the US education system. Similar to the need for change that catalyzed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development twenty+ years ago, is it time to […]
The theme for the show is High-Performance Teams – explored through the lens of a rather unusual team-building event. A 15 day, 5,000 km trek from the Atlantic to the pacific coast of Canada, followed by a jaunt in Hawaii […]
Sooner Safer Happier by Jonathan Smart is one of those books that we feel should be read by EVERYONE at every level…this week Jay is joined by “the coach everyone wants to be when they grow up” Don Eitel, to […]
This week we have return guest Graham Scott. Graham is a practicing “throughput accountant” and he sits down to chat with us about his new book, Practice Makes Profit. Who knew you could make more money by NOT working […]
Bring up the topic of “technical debt” to a software engineer, a product owner, a stakeholder, or heavens above, the gold owner. What happens? Do you get frowns? Smiles? Nervous fidgeting? Technical Debt is such a loaded, misused, and misunderstood term. I imagine in […]