This week’s blog post is based on a chapter from our book, Scrum 101: the most frequently asked questions about Agile with Scrum, which is available to buy for £9.90. In 2001, a group of seventeen software specialists met in a ski resort in Utah, USA. They came from a variety of backgrounds… Read More »What is the Agile Manifesto?
In theory, agile and Scrum are relatively simple. The Agile Manifesto (including the 12 principles) is only 264 words and the Scrum Guide is only 14 pages. But there’s more to it than just theory though, right? That’s why decent training courses spend a few days trying to simulate how… Read More »Agile Mentor Circle
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday London Agile Discussion Group, Happy birthday to you. Last week, the London Agile Discussion Group held its 100th session. It all began over 4 years earlier … On Tuesday 20 August 2012, I climbed the stairs to a tiny… Read More »LADG is 100!!!!
In our new series, we ask people to talk us through how they visualise their work flow. First off the bat is Sky’s Mattia Battiston. Our Context We are a stable team of 5-6 developers, 2 testers, 1 business analyst, 1 team leader. We look after a family of… Read More »Talk the Board: Sky
From November 2016, we’ll be running Certified Scrum Master courses in the Thames Valley (the first one is in Reading) Hang on! Haven’t I always said that experience is more important than certification?! I still believe that … so I’ve teamed up with one of the best trainers in the… Read More »CSM course in Reading
“Why do we need a framework to scale agile? What does scaling agile even mean? Is it just another money-making scheme? Is it just a vehicle for Leffingwell to make a name for himself?” These were the kind of comments I started making back in 2013 when I first heard of… Read More »SAFe
feedback loopn. a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system When I agreed to run a discussion group on feedback loops, I thought that it would be easy: everyone thinks of the same few feedback loops, right? Wrong. Firstly, if you try to… Read More »Feedback loops
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” ∼ The Prime Directive Originating from Norman L. Kerth’s book, Project Retrospectives: A… Read More »What is the Prime Directive?
We have finally finished our first book! “Scrum 101: the most frequently asked questions about Agile with Scrum” in now available to buy on LeanPub. Why did we write a book? I was finding that the same questions were cropping up during training sessions and talks that I was giving on… Read More »New book release
A friend of mine recently pointed me in the direction of an article by Joao Medeiros in Wired magazine, titled: Behind the scenes with Chris Froome and Team Sky ahead of the Tour De France 2016. As I began to read the article, I was immediately interested, not only because I’m… Read More »Continuous Improvement with Team Sky – Taking inspiration from professional cycling
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