Agile in 31 days

Hola amigos! Starting the day with a hot cup of coffee! I've just got up and I feel like a rolling stone! I am certainly preparing a long post about those "managers that want to become Agile". Absolutely ridiculous. I will be quite brief today though, just want to (as in a Mike Vizdos way) "focus on  # deliver " So. I met a guy, Matt Harasymczuk , few weeks ago in a meetup from  ACE  that presented "the next project management methodology to revolutionize our development". It was absolutely great! He approached the idea of the importance of thinking, understanding that we are people and the idea of cultural change.  Absolutely. I cannot agree more. Slides here . Overall, for today I just would like to re-quote (this is like a re-tweet, right?) a sentence that was the main core of the presentation and leave that on you guys to think about it: " Agile is not a destination, Agile is a direction ".  Tony Grout, IBM How does it fe...

Hola! Cold afternoon here in London. Anything better than a double espresso? I don't think so! Me: Which topic should I talk about today? Why do you like your Cupra? You: How do you want me to know? Me: Aren't you interested in following this up with something interesting? You: Which topic do you consider you should write about to make this post more interesting? Me: What do you think about educational games to explain Scrum via playing? You: Why would not like it? Can you explain a funny one? Me: What about a Scrum Master Role game? As you can see this is a real-post-live example of one of my favorite-educational games from tastycupcakes.org See: http://tastycupcakes.org/2012/11/questions-only/ for further information The quickest and simplest way is to get someone that dictates the answer, the ways to walk. This makes our life easier. It makes us very comfortable. "Everything is under control." But... don't we think we should be able to be in ...

Hola amigos! Tomorrow I am attending a Certified Lean Kanban Foundation Training! I am very excited about it! I have the feeling that I have been "doing Kanban" for many years but I have not really been inducted on the foundations! So, from tomorrow, Tom Reynolds will guide us through. To make it more exciting we have been told to do some pre-homework. I have to choose in between few words from a list of Kanban concepts (I suppose) and share them tomorrow (underlined the picked-up ones) Kaizen Kaikaku Little’s Law Value stream Retrospective Cycle Times Kanban classes of service Make process policies explicit Due to my recent trip to Japan I had no other option to "google"  for Kaizen and Kaikaku . Kaizen seems to be related to "change for the better" whereas Kaikaku is something like "radical change". Slow changes against bigger ones. Mostly I think they describe "the speed of a change". It sounds interesting the...

Hola! Kalispera! Today is my second day in Athens. Worth saying how amazing the experience is being so far! And the weather is contributing! (And the food!) Yesterday I mentioned about the idea of incrementing value by delivering user stories in small chunks over this post: http://agilein31days.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/incrementally-provide-incremental.html We had no option today to move our thoughts to a real scenario. And It was also a great opportunity to move ourselves to the battlefield since it was the last day of the sprint. Time to start over and inspect what happened... We took a breath, we had an espresso freddo   and then we started inspecting/adapting from particular examples. We tried to find a valid 'waterfall' story from the previous sprint to proceed with the first observations. "What would have we done if we had taken this story now?". "Can we take into consideration an incremental delivery approach?". Eureka! Two members of the team...