Turns out being Agile IS all About Culture
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’. Read more
Using extremely short sprints for small teams
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 development team is supporting existing clients, an interruption is only a phone call or support email away. Read more
3 Simple Steps to Starting Off with Scrum
I often get asked (or read posts) wondering about how to get started with Scrum. There are quite a few factors involved with coming up with an approach to switch to Scrum or Agile in general. Organization size and level of internal politics is probably the largest barrier I’ve seen based on conversations I’ve had with folks, which is understandable.
Change needs to start somewhere and usually I find the people in control are most often the toughest nut to crack out of the gate. Here are 3 simple tactical steps that can help point you in the right direction to implementing Scrum. Read more
