Agile in 31 days

Hola! Very good morning folks! I am having my second coffee of this lovely and cold day in London! I like watching  BBC News  on Sundays while I am checking out how my beloved football club performed the day before in "La Liga". Malaga FC won yesterday . These are real good news to start off the day. It is also sad that I have no other option to follow my team up remotely. Sign of the times, I guess. Well, suddenly the BBC presenter introduced us  'Wi-Fi Orchestra' . This is basically a live music experiment with 11 people performing at the same time music on 9 different subway stations in NYC (tube if you live in London) thanks to the free Wi-Fi (and Skype). All of them conducted by a director called Ljova. Maybe this is a campaign organised by Skype to sell us the advantages of using Skype as a tool to collaborate remotely. In any case, this is a real demonstration of a good cooperation, an excellent level of communication and a big understanding on where are ...

Hola Hola! Maybe not the right time for a coffee. No. There's always a good time for it. Agile coaching is tough. Very tough. Essentially we (people) are... tough. You need to have a strategy (your epic) and a full set of tactics (user stories) that align to a common goal. Within my career. When providing Agile coaching, this is structured in few phases: 1. Understanding of the current situation and who the people are and behave. This is a continuos work since people are not predictable and you cannot even draft an immutable plan. However, we need to start from a point, let's say our sprint 0. We will be learning as we go. Last week for instance. Our starting point was the understanding of our evolution as a team and an individual brief profile description .  " We know how we are (Now!) and what brought us here" 2. Additionally, provide with sufficient materials, documentation to read as a guideline to self-"learn" and estimulate the idea of...