Adam Weisbart discusses making Agile fun, through the use of resources he has developed such as “Build Your Own Scrum”, “Retrospective Cookies”, “Update The Card Wall” and “Agile Antipatterns”.
Source: Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun
Agile Tour is a yearly non-profit conference series that is hosted in a variety of cities worldwide throughout the months of October to December with the aim of connecting the Agile community. Now in its fifth year, the tour is currently making its way around the globe and is supported by both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.
Source: Agile Tour Circling All Corners Of The World
Craig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:
You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.
You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.
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At Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk about pair coaching, running a Lean Startup, the direction of the Agile Alliance and the future of Agile.
His talk at Agile 2012 (with Alistair McKinnell) was entitled “Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code“. Look out for a longer video interview with Declan on InfoQ.
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Craig chats with Adam Weisbart as he tries to enjoy his breakfast at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas. When not eating toast, he is creating awesome stuff for the Agile community at his website, teaching Scrum courses or coaching teams at CollabNet. His talk at Agile 2012 was entitled “Agile Antipatterns: The Agilist’s Guide to Traps, Tripwires and Treachery“. Look out for a longer video interview with Adam Weisbart on InfoQ.
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A new “Scrum Kickoff Planner” has just been released by Adam Weisbart with the aim of facilitating team discussion around the important facets of starting a new Agile team or project.
Source: New Scrum Kickoff Planner Aims To Help Agile Teams Start on The Right Track
A new survey, conducted by Serena Software at the recent Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that whilst projects using Agile are working well, they could be much better and some of the biggest challenges include upsteam and downstream communication.
Source: Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement
Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd discuss the discipline of professional coaching, leading and facilitating conflict and the right view when thinking about conflict.
Source: Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Professional Coaching and Leading Conflict
My lecture for students in SWEN302 Agile Methods at Victoria University of Wellington called “Going All XP On Your Business” is available on Slideshare.
My presentation from Fusion 2012 called “Going All XP On Your Business” is available on Slideshare.
When XP and Scrum were devised over 10 years ago, they were created to improve the delivery of software development projects. As many enterprises have matured in the Agile adoption, many of the business users on IT projects are now attempting to use Agile approaches on their own non-IT projects.
In this session we will cover using Agile in a non-IT environment and demonstrate how the original XP practices map extremely well over to business processes. And how those in SD can help your business counterparts.
Throughout the talk I will be referencing back to specific examples and case studies that we have experienced
in our organisation as we have rolled out agile processes across the enterprise. We’ll look at:
- Agile values for non-software development, including an updated look at the agile manifesto.
- Agile principles and why they make good business sense.
- Agile practices (such as TDD, standups, retrospectives, storycard elaboration and acceptance criteria
and planning approaches) and how to adapt them effectively into a business process (using case
studies as specific examples).- Mapping the XP, Scrum and Kanban practices to work in a business context.
- Agile vs Kanban and how to decide when which is most appropriate.
- What a business storycard looks like and why the elaboration and acceptance criteria are important.
- Project delivery and how iterative delivery applies (and what delivery looks like in a non-software development project).
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