Software Development Nirvana vs Hotfixes
The purpose of software development is not actually the development of software. If one could accomplish the same result that software development provides without developing any software, then that is
Burning Down Hours is Anti-Agile Because Working Software is the Primary Measure of Progress
A burn-down chart can use anything for the units, such as hours or points, but originally Scrum's burn-down chart tracked hours of work remaining in the iteration. Many people still
How I Discovered That Agile Can be Taught to 200 People at a Time
I was speaking to some fellow Agilists at an event recently about an Agile training course that I do that can accommodate up to 200 people at a time and
Exciting New Agile Training Option – Train Your Whole Organization!
Agile training is pretty expensive and generally targeted towards Scrum Masters. If you have a lot of people you want to train, it makes sense to just send the Scrum
Panning for User Story Gold: Increase business value and reduce costs
Putting User Stories into business value order is a key tennet of Agile, but that's just the first step. There's much more value to be extracted from your user stories
Agile Book Recommendations
The following books are the main books that I recommend as starting points for learning about the various aspects of Agile. While their is a fair amount of overlap each
Introducing Kanban Into an Existing Scrum Implementation
By far, the talk that I am most requested to do is "Scrum and Kanban Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter". I've given the talk all over the US and Europe, most
Sticking to Estimates
I got a great comment from Kelly Waters on my recent post "Scrum: No commitment required" via his web site. After responding I realized that the response was a good basis for
Scrum and Kanban Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter Slides
For those of you that have attended one of my recent talks on "Scrum and Kanban Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter," here are the slides for the presentation. If you haven't
Scrum: No Commitment Required!
A couple of years ago I first talked about applying the decoupling principle to Scrum. Since then I've turned a bunch of that material into a presentation called “Scrum and Kanban
Agile 2011 Highlights and Why Go to Agile 2012
For the third year running now I've produced a video of highlights from the Agile 20xx conference. The intention is to give a flavor of the conference and also to
Agile 2011 – Back to the Future!
Here are my thoughts on anticipating Agile 2011, filming Agile 2011, and reflecting back on the past 10 years of Agile. Looking Forward to Agile 2011 I can't believe that