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Happy Diwali!
Today’s a special day for my team: we’ve got one more day before our Iteration 1 Show & Tell and, of course, it’s Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. During the second part of our standup this...
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People are Magic
Change Happens P.: I hear you’re an Agile Coach. Agilista: You are correct. P.: What do you do as a coach? Agilista: I change people. P.: In my experience, you can only change yourself. Agilista: I...
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The Devil’s in the Detail
The first and most important thing I share with any team I work with are the Agile Values, also known the XP Values from Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. The Five Agile Values 1. Communication is a two...
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Are you ready for Ultimate Agile?
Congratulations! THE BIG DAY you’ve been training for for the past 364 days will soon by upon us. It’s time to cash in on the benefit of the thousands of Agility exercises you’ve been putting into...
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The Team Manifesto – Part 1
TO create a team that delivers value now and in the future AS A group of individuals WE NEED to create an agreed way of working. Immediately after the Profile Card Exercise, we create the team’s...
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The Team Manifesto – Part 2
Leverage the Wisdom of Your Team (Duration: 15 – 30 minutes) Now we have our team values and the team’s definition of Quality, we’re ready to create our team manifesto out of two A0 posters. A team...
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Agile 2009: Mapping the Agile Enablement Battlefield
‘Change happens. It cannot be controlled. It can only be influenced.’ One of the key criteria for successful Agile Adoption is to make it grow and endure throughout an organisation. To overcome this...
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Agile 2009: Appreciations
Thank You! to Team Jenga (featuring Peter Yu, Syrous Delavari, Alex Dergousova, Boris and Kevin Mezick) for building the tallest Jenga tower at Agile 2009 by starting small! Thank You! to Peter Yu,...
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Plain as the Nose on Your Face
Two snowmen are standing in a field. One says to the other, ‘Can you smell carrots?’ Out in the Field Imagine. You wake up. It’s Friday. It’s almost the weekend. The first thing you see is a blanket...
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What do you want to learn about Games Facilitation?
Dear Reader, I’ve been invited to present a 90-minute session about Games Facilitation at Deep Agile 2010. And so I would like to exercise the Wisdom of Crowds and ask you this: what do you want to...
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