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Strategic to Tactical – Breaking down work in an Agile environment based on outcomes
One of the questions I get asked the most is “What do we mean by feature or user story, and what the hell is an Epic???” If you or anyone you work with has had to deal with detangling the jargon around how Agile describes the outcomes or work being done by different levels in…
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Upcoming Agile Patterns Book Online
Recently I was interviewing candidates for a couple of positions on an Agile project. As part of the recruiting process, I had to spend considerable time (aka late nights) going through dozens and dozens of resumes in order to shortlist the ones that seemed promising enough to call for a face-to-face interview. While going through…
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Agile performance: it’s about more than skills!
What makes a successful Agile team member? I’ve been asked this question numerous times by people assembling a Scrum or XP team, so I thought I would blog about it. Simply put, attitude is everything. Sure, you need to be competent at the right technical skills, but I will take 1 person with the right…
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Welcome to Agile People Patterns
In this series of posts, I will discuss common (and not so-common) problems faced by teams and their leadership trying to adopt Agile practices. Adopting Agile is a lot harder than practicing Agile! If you have had the privilege of observing a mature Scrum team, you can see how effortlessly individuals come together so that…
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Welcome to Agile by the Numbers
This series of articles delves into the sticky topic of Agile metrics. Let me state right off the bat that this is NOT focused on measuring the performance of an Agile team for purposes of benchmarking or report-card scoring, although you will get some nice data for this purpose if you follow along. The main…