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Scrum Bubbles Recommendation of the Week
Have you checked out the Agile Uprising Coalition yet? If you haven’t, you should. According to their website, they are a “purpose-built network that focuses on the advancement of the agile mindset and global professional networking between and among practicing agilists.” I check out Agile Uprising regularly to see what my fellow agilists say about…
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Hackathon How-To
Recently, my company did its second-ever hackathon. It was somewhat thrown together, but I think the results were amazing. It provided all the scrum teams with a much-needed break from the everyday grind, but more importantly, it gave them the opportunity to work on something they felt passionately about. My company wants to give these…
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Reboot!
I’m back!
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Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Project Management: Week 5
I love how everyone assumes that the project manager – ME – already knows everything. I can only wish I was omniscient. It is assumed that I know everyone who is responsible for certain test areas. When I don’t and I ask who these people are, I am met with the “duh” look and a…
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Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Project Management: Week 4
So in my current role of PM, I’m experiencing the NEED to babysit EVERYONE on this project far more than I have in the past as a Scrum Master. Here are some examples: No one is sharing information even after I’ve requested it. I have to pull it from them. For instance, I had no…
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Favorite Agile Tweet of the Day
Check out @mike_bowler’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/mike_bowler/status/371049721424388096
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How many types of Agile Retrospectives are there, anyway?
The other day I noticed that we were getting pretty stagnant with our sprint retrospectives. I have been asking these questions: “What went well? What went less well? What areas improved from last sprint? What areas need improvement?” Sometimes we get some good discussions going, but most of the time I have to prod my…
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Recommended Agile Reading
From time to time, I will review and/or list books that I find helpful. I don’t have time to go into a full review while I’m on my lunch break, but right now I’m re-reading The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers), by Jonathan Rasmusson. It’s a great back-to-basics book for those…
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How to Give a GREAT Demo!
One of the major tenets of Agile is the Product Demo. As we all know, agile encourages us to demo at the end of our sprints. This is done for several reasons. Not only does this keep us accountable to our customers, but it helps us to focus on forward thinking. At many companies, it…
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