My wife grew up spending a half of every summer living in Algonquin Park. My father-in-law was a bush pilot for the Ontario Ministry of Natural...
0 replies - 2887 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards...
0 replies - 1950 views - 03/28/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles
For years I’ve assumed that when Agile principles succeeded at a team level they would naturally spread to other teams in the organisation until...
0 replies - 1079 views - 03/27/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to...
4 replies - 3265 views - 03/26/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles
Take any opportunity to be pro-active
Q. If we gave you carte blanche to work on anything for six months, what would you work on?
There is no right answer to...
0 replies - 742 views - 03/26/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
An office might not seem like an unhealthy working environment when compared to factories and car garages. Working in an office demands sitting for long...
0 replies - 1893 views - 03/25/13 by David Shaw in Articles
It was the nth time that a supplier has failed us. If we analyze it logically, there were two options: Get mad or roll with the punches.
Since we’re not...
0 replies - 1420 views - 03/25/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
The proclamation by Marissa Mayer last month, informing Yahoo employees that working from home is no longer an option, really seemed to bring an important...
0 replies - 2389 views - 03/20/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
Back When We Compiled to Machine Code and Links Took 45 Minutes...Back in the day, I ran a small spreadsheet company, Athena Design
that took on the big...
0 replies - 3196 views - 03/20/13 by David Pollak in Articles
After reading Lean Startup (which you should all read) I’ve come across too many great ideas and I really wanted to begin applying those to another idea...
0 replies - 2232 views - 03/19/13 by Javier Manzano in Articles
Some folks are using agile to invent. They are trying to figure out the right products to build for markets that don’t even know what they want. They are...
0 replies - 2474 views - 03/18/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
I remember sitting in a project meeting back
when I worked for a Big Company. The project manager, Ted, announced the
top three priorities. When I...
2 replies - 2097 views - 03/18/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
In my last post “What’s next for Agile?”, I talked about alignment between the development team and the business, from the customer focus...
0 replies - 919 views - 03/16/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
For a shared identity
to work, it is useful to know who is, and who is not, part of the
group. This is sometimes quite clear, but quite often it isn’t....
0 replies - 2248 views - 03/14/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
Starting the start of the industrial revolution in 18th century, there has been a trend of increasing specialization. Rather than workers being involved in...
0 replies - 2324 views - 03/13/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles
