The InfoQ publication of Pragmatic Dave Thomas' talk: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep introduces the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition, which describes how people progress through levels of mastery in a subject:Novice - Novices have little or no previous experience and context from which to make decisions. They require a safe environment,...

Here are some thoughts that have been rattling around in my head for some weeks:Focus on the right stuffDeliver every weekGet close to real usersContinuously learn in order to improveSet incremental business success criteria based on empirical dataFollow the money (generate revenue, create profit)Fund incrementally based on achievement of...

Here are some thoughts that have been rattling around in my head for some weeks:Focus on the right stuffDeliver every weekGet close to real usersContinuously learn in order to improveSet incremental business success criteria based on empirical dataFollow the money (generate revenue, create profit)Fund incrementally based on achievement of...

At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn't work and suggested developing attributes for backlog prioritization that drive profitable growth. In terms of what we've been doing at one of our clients using Throughput Accounting this means...

At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke said prioritizing the backlog by ROI doesn't work and suggested developing attributes for backlog prioritization that drive profitable growth. In terms of what we've been doing at one of our clients using Throughput Accounting this means...

Via Diana Larsen.I really like the idea of having a team norm in place to help deal with interpersonal conflict.The norm would require the people involved in the conflict, as part of their membership of the team, to work together (with the help of a facilitator; aka Scrum Master) to find the root cause of their conflict. Basically get in a room...

Via Diana Larsen.I really like the idea of having a team norm in place to help deal with interpersonal conflict.The norm would require the people involved in the conflict, as part of their membership of the team, to work together (with the help of a facilitator; aka Scrum Master) to find the root cause of their conflict. Basically get in a room...

A cornerstone of the agile community is collaboration. However, I came away from Agile2008 feeling slightly deflated. Over the past few months one of our teams cited the lack of respect as the root cause for the breakdown in collaboration they were experiencing. A lack of respect is in itself a symptom of something else more fundamental - the...

A cornerstone of the agile community is collaboration. However, I came away from Agile2008 feeling slightly deflated. Over the past few months one of our teams cited the lack of respect as the root cause for the breakdown in collaboration they were experiencing. A lack of respect is in itself a symptom of something else more fundamental - the...

Joe Little's session was interesting. Basically, you need to define what business value is for your product and that definition may evolve over time.I've always used the chartering session to derive an implicit definition for business value through the identification of success criteria for the product. For example, we're currently developing...

Joe Little's session was interesting. Basically, you need to define what business value is for your product and that definition may evolve over time.I've always used the chartering session to derive an implicit definition for business value through the identification of success criteria for the product. For example, we're currently developing...

Ron Jeffries said if you get running tested features in front the customer/users they'll start using it. If you get running tested features in front of the customer/users every week there comes a time when they say, "Hey, we can actually start using this now". We experienced this at one of our clients. We put running tested features in front of...

Ron Jeffries said if you get running tested features in front the customer/users they'll start using it. If you get running tested features in front of the customer/users every week there comes a time when they say, "Hey, we can actually start using this now". We experienced this at one of our clients. We put running tested features in front of...

borlandbalderdashOriginally uploaded by sjb140470First, this advert made me laugh. Then I got annoyed. "Agile squared - Agility meets Visibility." When you read that tag line what does it say to you? When I read it, I interpreted the message to say that visibility wasn't part of being agile in the first place and that the tool is the saviour...

borlandbalderdashOriginally uploaded by sjb140470First, this advert made me laugh. Then I got annoyed. "Agile squared - Agility meets Visibility." When you read that tag line what does it say to you? When I read it, I interpreted the message to say that visibility wasn't part of being agile in the first place and that the tool is the saviour...