I take the opportunity of a really good article shared recently by my network. It’s been a while since I wanted to share some thoughts about product definition and about organizational consultants advices. My humbleness and shyness prevented me to write anything about it but today I decided to give […]
Adaptive
15 posts
No, no, noooo….. The title of this post is aimed to introduce the description of a behavior I see as incredibly valuable. It is a behavior that I’ve been lucky to observe in the Product Owner that I am working with and in the Product Owners that I’ve been lucky […]
As you probably guessed the title of this post is ironic. I want to spend few words to show the logic behind a certain kind of behavior and its consequences. The behavior I’m referring to as: Challenge Driven Development is one that some are tempted to use. This behavior is […]
Following a link from this Martin Fowler’s post I was pleased to find this great piece by Henrik Kniberg. In that post he talks about the mess we sometimes create while coding our way through an issue. He calls it “Good Technical Debt” and explains us the crucial role it plays […]
I recently re-read this great article by Martin Fowler about Technical Debt. I feel shy about having a partially dissenting opinion but I’m taking courage and I will blog about it. The part that caught my attention is the following sentence: If I have a terrible area of the code […]
Have you ever felt like if you were forcing other team members to attend a Retrospective meeting? Have you ever noticed a changed attitude over time and your not sure about how the mood actually changed? It’s hard to know what happened to our colleagues right before they walk in […]
Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka is a compendium of knowledge about participatory decision making and more widely about teams dynamics! Jean Tabaka guides us in a journey exploring all the aspect of collaboration via a digest of available knowledge coming from an extensive bibliography and having made this knowledge sound […]
If you want to be serious about facilitating a retrospective you must first read and then use this book! Esther Derby and Diana Larsen provide us with a comprehensive view of what a retrospective is and of what are all the aspects to consider and to be comfortable with. ”Retrospectives […]
When face-to-face communication goes social Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. Since I’m writing here, it’s no surprise that I believe in communication and sharing of experiences. This is evident in the first place because I’m writing, and even more because I’m submitting here. When […]
Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. I’d like to share my experiences in working both with and without tools designed for a specific purpose. I worry when colleagues and teammates talk about principles. I am concerned about the frequent transformation of principles in diktats, because […]
The dark side of not investing in a product owner Article originally published at www.scrumalliance.org. You can find the original article here. Let me tell you about my experience working without a true product owner. At my company, we all heard that implementing some of the Scrum practices didn’t mean […]
Hopefully you’ve been attracted by the title of this post and you are wondering how can Scrum be related to the vaccines quarrel. Actually they both are related to how we tend to behave as human beings of the information era. About the Vaccines Quarrel Why am I talking about […]
<br /> You need to read this book though it is not a life changer. Dale Carnegie wrote it back in the ’30s of last century and you can feel it in the way it is written and from the assumptions about roles in society. The book is written as […]
Great book providing the ultimate receipt for effective Product Ownership. The author, Gojco Adzitc, illustrates us how to identify the desired actions related to our product. Impact mapping is about visual management and about helping people to focus on the first things first. What an impact map is – from […]
Reading this book is like having the best mentor you can desire sitting at your side desk. Kent Beck explains clearly his thoughts and experiences and how he made up his mind to find out better ways to deliver value. He does not present himself as the perfect teacher […]