To most of us, the problems with fixing cost, scope and time are obvious. How do we know we can deliver all of the scope, in the time we’ve been given, with the people we have to do it? The short answer, is that in most cases you can’t especially… Read More »Fixed Everything Projects
I spent yesterday morning at ITV. It’s always interesting to see how another company works. Like most organisations it has some good and bad practices, with some teams being more developed than others. All usual stuff. What stood out was the overall belief in self-organisation. It was evident that team… Read More »Rating ITV
How good are your retrospectives? Could they be better? Do you have the opportunity to watch other teams’ retros? Is there someone who you can invite to critique your meetings? During my time at Net-A-Porter, I was lucky enough to work with some excellent people and we helped each other… Read More »Retro: The Movie
In my recent post; Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools I discussed how there may be difficulties with how we interact with each other. So how might be a good way to talk to one another? Marshall Rosenberg, a well-known psychologist, created a communication process in the early… Read More »A better way to communicate?
During a talk last week about certain aspects of the Agile Manifesto I began thinking about the manifesto’s first statement Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools. I’m sure we all know that the textbook definition to this is that we value the people and the communication between the people… Read More »Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools
Or is it? It’s not so much the act of estimation that’s the issue. Relative sizing can be a useful tool to help teams gain a shared understanding of a work item, and as a barometer for keeping batch size small. It’s what we do with those numbers afterwards that… Read More »To estimate, or not to estimate: That is the question.
The Agile and Lean communities love an acronym, but will settle for an initialism if they have to. For clarification, an acronym is when a word is formed from the initial letters of words in a phrase, and is then pronounced as a separate word (for example, BAFTA or WYSIWYG).… Read More »Acronym Quiz
UPDATE: please note that the Scrum Mentorship Programme is no longer running. For information on our latest mentorship scheme, please go to agilementorcircle.org “How do I start using Scrum?” is a question I get asked a lot. “Where can I go to get some hands-on training?” is another. The need is… Read More »Scrum Mentorship Programme
When was the last time that you sat down with a team from another company and discussed how each of you tackled a similar problem? How often do you knowledge-share with other firms to learn from one another? Chances are you never have. Most companies seem to prefer to remain… Read More »Share and share alike
Does having too much money discourage a company from being agile? Why are cash-starved start-ups often much better at it? Over the years I’ve found that larger companies struggle at being agile whilst it is almost second nature to start-ups. Within big organisations, blame is often directed towards “old-school managers”.… Read More »Do big companies have too much money to be agile?
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