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I’ll be facilitating What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? at Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World 2008. They have given me the following discount code, worth $100 off the VIP Pass, which you can use when you register. The discount code is: 8ASPK
You can register here.
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This is the first of a two sessions that I facilitated at Agile Coach Camp. A small group of agile coaches, including Ron Jefferies came together on Saturday to consider the question “What makes agile teams succeed (or Fail)?” Using the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink process, we generated, discussed, and ranked about a dozen ideas.
I recently presented The Business Case for Agile for the BayXP group. Here are the slides.
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I recently facilitated What makes agile projects succeed (or Fail)? for the BayAPLN, the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. There were 63 participants, even more than at the Chicago Scum Gathering. Using the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink technique, the group generated, discussed, and ranked 65 ideas. We managed to do all of this in less than 90 minutes!
This Tuesday evening I’ll be facilitating What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? at the BayAPLN meeting. This is the Bay Area chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. The event is free and open to the public, but you must RSVP.
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On April 23rd, I had the pleasure of facilitating a 1/2 day workshop: From Tester to Leader, at the Targeting Quality conference in Waterloo, Ontario. To get things rolling, we examined what it means, and what it takes to be a leader in the context of a QA group. We used the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink process to list the qualities of the best leaders that the participants had worked with.
Have you struggled to convince the ‘powers that be’ that your organization should make the move to agile? While the benefits seem obvious to ‘us’, it often seems like ‘they’ just don’t get it. Are our business leaders stupid? Usually, the answer is no. They simply have a different perspective, language, and set of values.
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I’m back home, in the San Francisco Bay Area, after a couple of weeks on the road. I went to Chicago for the Scrum Gathering, where I presented Agile 101, and What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? I also facilitated a couple of open space sessions. Notes from one of those, Let’s Practice Agile Estimation, can be found here on the Agile Alliance Wiki.
Greetings from the 2008 Chicago Scrum Gathering! On Monday I led two sessions: Agile 101, and What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? I also led a session on agile estimation in the open space portion of the conference.
Almost 50 people gathered to consider the question: What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? In under an hour and a half, we generated and ranked about 50 ideas. Here, in order, are the things that this group felt had the biggest impact on the success of the agile projects that they have been involved with. You can compare this list with generated by previous groups here, here, and here.
Greetings from the 2008 Scum Gathering!
At 9:00 AM this morning I was surprised to see about 25 more-or-less bright shinny faces in the room for Agile 101. I was even more surprised as people continued to trickle in until the room, setup for 50, was at capacity. Wow!
Many thanks to all who came out and participated.
Cheers,