Hello All, Here is the update for the second day. We started with Jurgen Appelo and the presentation of “Let’s help Melly”. A fantastic presentation going from Manager 1.0 to Manager 3.0. Very good metaphor and a lot of good […]
Hello All, As I promised, I will try to do a small resume about Agile Games 2013 conference in this first day. I will do my best, because it was a BIG day starting a 8:00AM and we just finished at 8:45PM. […]
Hello All, I am so happy to have all ready to go to Agile Games 2013. Interesting conferences for those ones loving games as me. I really believe that games help a lot at the moment to learn something. Keynotes […]
Hello everyone, One of the things more important in a team is the “TRUST”. Without “TRUST”, the team is not working well, and at the end is not a functional team. Without “TRUST”, it is like few people working together in the […]
Hello everyone, Today I want to present something different I tried in our retro. We really like it, so I want to share it with you. I realized that pictures have a big impact in our life. We also know […]
Hello to everyone, today, another excited retrospective with one of the team I am working on. During the spring happened few events and all had a “happy” end for the full team and stakeholders. We decided to run one retrospective […]
Hello to all, today I want to share with you one of my challenger: How to measure if the team is progressing in agile. I am not a lover of KPIs and I have to recognize that some times, I saw them as […]
Improve the communication is the dream of all teams/units/companies. Some teams/units/companies are good on that, but they want to master it. In the other hand, some teams/units/companies are not good at all. Wherever is the level of communication, I want to […]
The year started and new goals where disclosed in one of the team I am working with. Brainstorm part-I was done and the team needs to meet again to finalize it and convert ideas in “stories”. So far, so good. As coach, […]
Hello everyone, here is what I was waiting for some time, one retro with LEGO® in first hand. If you want my resume in one phrase, here is: “It was a FANTASTIC retrospective”. First of all I was looking something […]
The high performance tree from Lyssa Adkins is one of my favorite coach tool to start in any team. By the way, I am presenting it in my first retro at every team I touch. Here is my way to […]
Confronting people is one of the most difficult task I found in the past. Now, with some reading, training and experience I am able to say that I could confront to anyone. It was not easy and I know that I […]
As I mentioned in other post here, one of the team I am working now had one interesting backlog with about 200 items (including bugs) without estimate. Today I will share my latest experience with “White Elephant sizing” or “Poker planning […]
Maybe if you are an agile practitioner, you found the title of this blog a little bit estrange. Principally because we know that agile planning exits and we need to use it. However, as scrum master/agile coach, sometimes I see teams where the planning […]
I started to work with a new team few weeks ago and I felt like the team is taking long time to estimate (in SP). Due to this, the PO has problems to do any kind of planning. Here is […]
In this opportunity I want to share with you something that I learned some time ago and maybe you are already doing it: Daily logs at the moment we start with one team. Personally I always find interesting all notes […]