Introduction What is an ‘Agile Coach’? Aren’t those two words contradictory? I removed the ‘Agile’ part when describing what I do a few months ago and a meetup this week raised the same topic. So what’s the problem? Coach definition Jenny Rogers, in her book Coaching Skills, says “Coaching starts… Read More »The paradox of the Agile Coach
We’ve all heard of the term Kaizen, and we all know that it is the practice of continuous improvement. The practice of Kaizen has served many of the teams and organisations I have worked with well. Teams that were previously floundering in mediocrity grew into great teams by the fact… Read More »When gradual improvement is not enough
Story points and velocity are probably the most well known tools for estimation in Agile environments. They are the basis for predictability with Scrum. To begin with, we should be clear on what a story point is. Most people reading this will have heard at least one definition, and probably more… Read More »Story Points & Velocity (with Planning Poker)
“When is it going to be ready?”, “How long will it take?”. As someone involved in software delivery, you are probably asked these questions or something like them, every day. However you choose to answer the question, you’ve probably taken into consideration the capacity of your team. For most people,… Read More »Increasing Capacity: A Question of Capability
The team that I am currently working with is approaching the end of the sprint. After the last stand up, conversation turned to taking on more product backlog items before the sprint finishes, as the team felt like they had some spare time, or, slack. Most of the team felt strongly… Read More »Are we slacking enough?
This weekend I set myself the objective of decorating my bathroom. I enlisted some help, took 2 days off and set about planning the work. The plan consisted of several goals: take the old tiles off the wall, remove the old shower, plaster where necessary, attach the new shower, tile… Read More »Responding to Change – A Decorator’s Story
I was recently involved in a release planning discussion where someone referred to an action that needed to be “handed over to the DevOps” team. I was slightly confused by what this meant. When I questioned this, I was told that what was meant by DevOps in this instance was… Read More »DevOps
So we’ve come to the end of yet another ‘sprint’ known as a year. Each 365 day sprint seems to go by quicker each time. Traditionally this is the time of year when we retrospect on how the last 12 months have gone and we come up with a ‘resolution’… Read More »My new year’s evolution
I’ve been attending stand ups for the better part of 10 years. I’ve been to some good ones, some bad ones and some really bad ones. More recently, I’ve been helping the teams I work with now, to get more value from them. We encouraged ourselves to think about what… Read More »Are You Getting Value From Stand Ups?
The definition of constraint in English: NOUN A limitation or restriction (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/constraint) The systems that we work in often face limitations or restrictions. These can stop us efficiently reaching our goals. What is the Theory of Constraints? The Theory of Constraints, created by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and illustrated in… Read More »Theory of Constraints
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