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Writings from around the Net
In the past year (gulp I realize I’ve posted some writing of interest to regular readers of this site. The ScrumAlliance has started publishing the Agile Atlas – our definition of Scrum. Those who keep...
View ArticleGatineau/Ottawa Agile Tour 2013 – Call for volunteers – Forming of the...
We are proud to launch the call for volunteers process to form the next Gatineau-Ottawa Agile Tour organizing committee. We are planning to hold the event towards the end of November 2013. If you are...
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Choosing a Sprint Length – Shorter Trumps Longer
The Agile Atlas (the Scrum Alliance’s Guide to Scrum), provides little advice when choosing your Sprint length, saying only: “A Sprint is a fixed time period, from one to four weeks, with a preference...
View ArticleGOAT 2013 – Call for Speakers
We are looking for engaging and inspirational speakers for this year’s Gatineau / Ottawa Agile Tour. If you are interested in speaking, please send an email to: speaker@GOAgileTour.ca and provide the...
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Story Splitting – a Play – “Spike Sherman”
User Stories are a common tool used by Agile Teams to capture the spirit of a requirement without too much detail. Sometimes User Stories are too large for the team to complete safely in one Sprint. In...
View ArticleIt’s not Scrum if…
The rules of Scrum are simple, but too often people forget that to actually do Scrum requires spirit, passion, engagement – and involving the whole team. This is a lighthearted list of some of the many...
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Stable Teams Really Do Matter
For years now Rally has been performing a large ongoing experiment on the Agile world. As a side effect of providing one of the better known tools they’ve managed to see a lot of data accumulate...
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Lifecycle of a User Story
User Stories are often used as a lightweight form of Agile requirement. Their goal is to replace heavy weight-specification documents with “a Card, a Conversation and a Confirmation”. When people...
View ArticleGOAT – Gatineau Ottawa Agile Tour – 2013
Next week is GOAT2013 and I will be running a session on “The Magic and Science of Teams”. In addition Agile Pain Relief Consulting is proud to be a Gold sponsor of this Agile conference, which this...
View ArticleMagic of Science and Teams – #GOAT13 Presentation
#GOAT13 is now but a fond memory. As promised to the attendees I’m posting the presentation slides including presenter’s notes: and handout. I’m also doing a bit of a retrospective to reflect on how to...
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A Tale of Two Daily Scrums
From surveying many people in my CSM trainings I’ve found most people think that Daily Scrum is about team members answering the three famous questions: What did you do yesterday? What will you do...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Things have been going well for our...
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ScrumMaster for Three Teams? What are the Alternatives?
ScrumMaster being pulled in many directions The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Product Backlog Refinement in Action
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Learning from past mistakes, Product...
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Agile Quick Links #21
Recent interesting reading that Agile folk will be interested in Falsehoods programmers believe about time – Noah Sussman More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition –...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Product Backlog Refinement in Action
The ScrumMaster Tales is a series of stories about ScrumMaster John who attended one of my courses. He is the ScrumMaster for the WorldsSmallestOnlineBookstore. Learning from past mistakes, Product...
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Agile Quick Links #21
Recent interesting reading that Agile folk will be interested in Falsehoods programmers believe about time – Noah Sussman More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition –...
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ScrumMaster Tales the Trouble with Sprint Burndowns
It’s six Sprints after the “Overtime/Disastrous Release”, which set the team back by several months. During the current Sprint Planning, the Team committed to completing the following nine User...
View ArticleGOAT14 – Call for Speakers
This year’s Gatineau Ottawa Agile Tour (#GOAT14) will take place on Monday, November 24th 2014, and Agile Pain Relief Consulting is once again a proud sponsor. Organizers are looking for engaging and...
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ScrumMaster Tales – Stuck Waiting for Other Teams
John (ScrumMaster) and the team are humming along nicely building great new features for the SmallestOnlineBookStore. With the huge success of the first big release nine months ago, venture capital...
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