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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 [...]

Waterfalling your Iterations: Not the way to handle re-work

January 15th, 2010 Jason 1 comment

Ah, good old re-work.  The thorn in the side of Scrum teams, the impossible mountain to climb for development teams.  Re-work is un-avoidable.  When people see working software, they get new ideas and might want some changes.   Here are some thoughts for handling re-work based on a few scenarios that popped up at work [...]

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If What You are Doing Works, Does the Label Really Matter?

December 16th, 2009 Jason No comments

Recently I had a brief messenger chat with a former co-worker that they determined they were actually using Scrum-ban instead of Kanban.  The timing of this chat coincided when I seemed to be coming across a multitude of discussions about what is/is not in Scrum, what is/is not Kanban and so on.
My initial response was [...]

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