Archives for Agile Leadership

Official Launch of AgileEVM at Agile 2010

It has been a while since we have posted to this blog but please stay tuned for more frequent updates. The reason for the blog interruption was that we were finishing off a book, “Managing Software Debt”, and releasing a product, AgileEVM. We thought our first blog entry to start our emergence back out of [...]

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Focus on Team Communication

In the agile community there are some common practices that are either seen as valuable or to be avoided. Two of those practices are estimation using Planning Poker and Sprint Planning task breakdown. The focus for many teams in these practices is on the estimates themselves and how “accurate” they are. It has been my [...]

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The Daily 15 Minutes of Fun

For the second time I find myself approving of a Daily Stand-up that is longer than 15 minutes.   This is different than a Daily Meeting that is declared complete and then a problem solving session (often with only part of the team) takes place while the issues are fresh in people’s minds.
Meet Carrie (pretend that [...]

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