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Yearly Archives: 2014
Public Impediments – Charlotte March 2014
We are a strong advocate of a public impediment list. Why? There are many reasons, but my top 3 are: Team members know when to tell and when not to tell the ScrumMaster about a new impediment Assuming some attempt at prioritization has been made, the Team knows when to give the SM feedback about […]
Definition of Ready
Gabriel asked: Hi Joe, Can you recommend few good sources for “Definition of Ready” ? Answer: I like Jeff Sutherland’s ideas. In general, but also in this area. Did you see this? http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2009/07/ready-dynamic-model-of-scrum.html It includes an article. Read that. As he taught me, the DOR (or ‘ready, ready criteria’) is flexible team by team. Each […]
Public Impediment List – Charleston Mar 2014
I am a big advocate of each team having a public impediment list. Elsewhere I describe that in more detail, and describe some issues with it. The key thing: the main purpose of the list is to enable us to fix the ‘best’ impediment faster or sooner. We don’t just have a list to do […]
Impediments – Raleigh-Durham Feb 2014
I really want to advocate again that we must make the impediments visible in a public impediment list. And never stop aggressively attacking them. If you prefer to call it ‘our list of things to improve on,’ I won’t arrest you. Here’s the list the group made in this class. They are not on order, […]
Question: More on Agile Contracts
Gabriel asks: Can you suggest a few relevant papers on Agile contracts? I am interested in both the ad-hoc, non-commercial agreements, to maximize, based on Pareto law naive application, the output of PO-development team through collaboration, and the commercial agreements that best support such an objective. I read this: http://www.agilecontracts.org/agile_contracts_primer.pdf but I would like to […]
Agile Contracts – The Poppendiecks
Here are some additional resources for Agile Contracts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ajwxtalBKE Above is a good presentation by Mary Poppendieck about ‘agile contracts’ via video. From 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/AgileLietuva/mary-poppendieck-agile-under-contract And above is a slide deck of a presentation by Mary Poppendieck in 2011. Not the same one as the video. And be aware that the Poppendiecks have done many […]
Open Agile Adoption
Open Agile Adoption is an ‘open’ approach to adopting and evolving agile in a given company or group. By ‘open’ we mean that we are engaging the people (who will be changing) in designing the change. We do not mean total chaos. Management might establish some ‘guardrails’ (eg, we will do Agile as defined in […]
Impediments – Charlotte in-house course
These impediments were identified (some I think are redundant). Note that some are expressed in quite a different way (eg, some negative, some positive). Dups may indicate that an issue is very important. Legacy Code impacts Allocate the correct people to the team Address Env Issues Define scope / business ask (better) Multiple decision makers […]
Joe’s real agile contract
Adela asks: “Please send me some information [on] the details contracts shall contain [for] those projects where the methodology is Agile.” To talk more clearly, let’s imagine a situation. Imagine you are a ‘development firm’, ie, in response to external client needs, you develop custom software. Imagine that the client contacts your firm. He knows […]
Scaling Workshop Montreal
I am really excited about the Scaling Workshop Dave Muldoon and I just led in Montreal. Dave had mentioned this before, but it struck me how each person’s problems are different. And, even if they are somewhat similar, they need to be prioritized differently. We had some discussion of ScrumPLOP.org. We discussed some patterns for […]