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Archive for July, 2006
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Affiliates Program Announcement
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Berteig Consulting Inc. has set up an affiliates program similar to the Amazon Associates program. This allows people who sign up for the program to earn money on referrals to public courses that Berteig Consulting Inc. offers. You help promote Agile and earn some cash by putting an affiliate link to the public courses offered by Berteig Consulting Inc. (includes the ScrumMaster Certification course). Sign up for the affiliates program or read the details.
Personal Scrum – Another Story of Applying Agile to Personal Life
Monday, July 17th, 2006Early today, Pete Deemer (who presented at the May 2005 Scrum Gathering – notes from his presentation are about 3/4 of the way down the entry), posted his experiences of using the Scrum framework, with adaptations to manage his personal life. He has graciously consented to sharing his story here.
Agile and Loans – a Metaphor
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006There is a nice comparison that can be made between loans and agile. My father, an agile coach now, describes the metaphor this way:
Test-Driven Management
Monday, July 10th, 2006An oldie, but a goodie, this short paper about Test-Driven Management is an excellent introduction to the topic. It is phrased in terms of the Extreme Programming practices, but it is generalizable to most types of agile work.
Updated Agile Work Cheat Sheets
Saturday, July 8th, 2006I have substantially updated the basic Agile Work Cheat Sheet and the Agile Work Cheat Sheet for Process Facilitators. Please check them out at the Berteig Consulting Inc. Agile Work Resources page.
Agile Work Artifacts – Delivered Final Results
Friday, July 7th, 2006I’ve written a few previous entries about the artifacts of Agile Work: the Work Item List (or Backlog), the Iteration Tasks, and the Record of Obstacles. But I’ve left the most important for last: the actual delivered final results.
Groups do Better than Individuals at Problem Solving
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006It’s official. Someone has done a fully-controlled experiment to prove that groups are better at solving problems than even the best individuals working separately. For example, a group of three people, was better than the three best people working independently.
Agile in New York
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Lean Blog
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Check out Panta Rei – Everything Flows, Everything Changes. This blog, by author Jon Miller, has extensive archives well worth poking through.
Agile Work Artifacts – Record of Obstacles
Monday, July 3rd, 2006The Process Facilitator has only a few key responsibilities. One of those is to remove obstacles that are preventing the team for completing its work quickly, effectively and with high quality. The team’s primary tool for tracking this work is the Record of Obstacles. Like the Work Item List, this is a fairly simple artifact.