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Is it Dysfunctional to Sit at Your Stand-up?

October 23rd, 2009 Jason No comments

It’s called the daily standup for a reason.  It happens daily and you standup.  Why do you standup?  You stand-up in order to keep the meeting short.  Each team member should answer 3 quick questions:

what did I do yesterday?
what am I planning on doing today?
what’s in my way?

I’m amazed at all the grumbling I hear [...]

Turns out being Agile IS all About Culture

June 26th, 2009 Jason 2 comments

I attended a great session on Agile vs Traditional last night with the Toronto Agile group and while there weren’t many traditional folks there, the session helped validate much of what I believe is the most important aspects of ‘becoming agile’.

Using extremely short sprints for small teams

May 11th, 2009 Jason No comments

Today we are experimenting with 1 day sprints as an attempt to clear a large backlog of product work and client related work. During our last retrospective we noticed that there was at least one interruption each day during the sprint and while they were small, it’s still proving the point that when your [...]