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Excuses Might Be the Response, Not Necessarily Resistance

March 5th, 2010 Jason No comments

I had an interesting conversation with a manager the other day about how to gain more insight into changes that are ongoing in the application one of our pilot Scrum teams is working on.  First, what’s the problem?  Group A was doing independent regression for a release and uncovered some ”defects’ that were a result [...]

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Learn the Secrets of Collaboration…From Your Kids

February 24th, 2010 Jason No comments

One of the simulations I like to facilitate during training sessions is a simple penny flipping exercise learned from Mishkin Berteig to show how the team approach can lead to substantial improvement and productivity gains.
The idea is simple, have the attendees work in a serial process where they have to pass the penny from person [...]

Simple Exercise to Demonstrate Value of Collaboration

January 28th, 2010 Jason 1 comment

This is a quick and simple exercise I ended up doing ‘off the cuff’ but based on feedback from the class, had huge value that talked about why the conversation is the most important piece of the user story.
I focus heavily on making the point that the written word is less important and while INVEST [...]