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- quotable_quotes_list.old
- s Leopold from "Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility" * "Quality... hould chose the broom" -- Howard Behar * “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” — Jim Barksdale, CEO Netfli... burn, Agile Software Development. * “ ... if we have managers deciding . . . which services will be bu
- enterprise_lean-agile_coach_course
- ch (OMEC) certification. Course participants will have the opportunity to take the exam.” ====== Attend... atively new behaviors that none of its components have (e.g. Ability to evade falcon) * Non-determin... ribution with mean and SD and exponential doesn't have SD * Any form of planning creates a confirmation bias. Someone has to have an interest in falsify the result (e.g. Dev test
- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- on with the quality of its outcome. Poker players have a word for this: “resulting.” When I started play... best and worst decisions of the previous year. I have yet to come across someone who doesn’t identify t... k within the limitations of the brains we already have. Our goal is to get our reflexive minds to exec... a vital step to being a better decision-maker. We have to make peace with not knowing. What makes a de
- how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective
- t we should perhaps improve? * What ideas do we have to improve? But then they offer little advice ab... y be helpful, and a beneficial change of pace, to have someone else facilitate the meeting so the Scrum ... general Team level of risk taking but we want to have intentional risk. An experiment is a way of phras... private to the Team. The Team needs to feel they have a safe environment to hash out issues. If this in
- so_you_want_to_setup_a_business_as_an_agile_coach
- ====== You’ve been coaching for a few years, and have decided that you want to set up a business as an ... business and helped others through the basics and have learned that there is a little more it than this.... Agile) consulting services of one person. If you have a different context, this article may not be usef... , a Google search. A word of advice here. If you have ever done product naming, you know that you can s
- under_what_conditions_is_full-time_equivalent_fte_resource_planning_effective
- cost * People and skills: Understand whether we have the people and skills available to get the project done In order to ensure that we have the best use of our people (that they are being w... ementing a “pull” based system. We assume that we have a fixed capacity machine organized as stable teams to do work and that most of the time we have the right kind of people to get the work done (af
- second_generation_lean_product_development_by_don_reinertsen
- anning, all requirements which is 1st generation Have you ever had a product development where there wa... conomics ===== All product development decisions have more than one moving part. Therefore have to quantify to make decision Eg cost of delay. Turns out to ... delay in release will result in loss of $500K" so have the basis for decision making. Plus can process
- what_is_a_user_story_ssa
- so if you find that you are not sure whether you have generated a user story or just a big task, ask yo... are going to demonstrate that the end user would have good feedback for, then you probably have a task, not a user story. It is useful to think about the ca... hey do not know who the user is, the picture they have in their mind will probably look like the develop
- why_should_we_work_harder_to_eliminate_the_effect_of_dependencies
- ndencies are "bad", but we also know that we will have them. I think, however, that we underestimate just how big an impact can have on the successful delivery of a project, with the... situation" you would hear "the situation where I have total control of the situation." In other words, ... y other work. Why is this the case? Its because I have total control over the success or failure of the
- how_do_we_deal_with_product_backlog_explosion
- t this is a problem as, as the list increases, we have an increasing number of backlog items that will n... uring, but the reality is that only the top items have any real chance of progress. Ironically, many pro... it, the more effective your work becomes. If you have items in the list that are not actually going to be worked, then you have a set of effort which produces no value. How much
- how_do_we_overcome_i_win_you_lose_type_thinking_to_open_organization_to_learning
- Preparation for Agile Submission based on work I have in place. ====== Meta Data ====== * Title: Ho... ip, get stuck on a particular position which they have trouble moving from. The feeling is that they don... This thinking should also support that and, if we have scheduled retrospectives, will help us be crisper... et stuck on a particular position from which they have trouble moving even when there is significant evi
- simulating_agile_execution_with_the_ball_point_game
- gile Execution with the Ball Point Game ====== I have no idea where the "Ball Point" game came from but... out it from Bob Schatz. Since learning about it I have found a great game to help people understand (by ... od * We are go to do 5 60 second periods * We have "quality control" - if you drop a ball that ball has to go back to the beginning if you want to have that ball count Does everyone understand. OK go
- how_do_we_use_story_point_estimates_to_forecast
- o Forecast? ====== ===== Team Velocity ===== We have Team based Story Point estimates. How can this in... work? Let's start with the simplest case first. Have a look at the following picture: {{ :forecasting... User Stories where the items in that Backlog all have Story Point estimates on them. The Team selects t... at, and 21 after that ... You get the idea. If we have a prioritized Backlog with estimates we can now f
- what_kind_of_questions_should_we_ask_if_we_are_hiring_a_coach
- remise ====== A lot of organizations I work with have a need to hire coaches to support their transform... t a more "situational" discussion. The idea is to have a a series of driving questions where there reall... kimp here perhaps it is because they don’t really have the level of experience needed. Also would like t... on. Here are some more specific questions that I have used to start that discussion: * “You are work
- what_can_we_do_to_improve_our_retrospectives
- went well, what didn’t go well, what ideas do we have” but, let’s face it, this is not a great format f... here is significant inertia around the way things have always been done, and that it is very easy to sli... a limited understanding of what you need to do to have great, useful, impactful retrospectives. Even if ... ective ceremony is only part of this. Even if you have a great retrospective, if you don’t follow up and