This article serves as a comprehensive guide for planning an inception workshop, offering valuable insights into the process and a menu of activities to choose from. It emphasizes the flexibility of creating an agenda tailored to specific goals, likening the selection of activities to choosing items from a restaurant menu, making it a valuable resource for those seeking to effectively initiate agile team projects.
I am a very experienced facilitator. About 90% of my experience is on face-to-face workshops. But...
I am really proud that Thoughtworks Brazil participated on 3 great Agile Tour events held in Brazil this year: Carlos Vilela presented at Agile Tour Sao Paulo, Paulo Caroli at Recife, and Pedro Pimentel at Rio de Janeiro. And it all happened before celebrating...
It was awesome to be part of the Agiles 2010 conference at Lima, Peru. It is really nice to see Agilistas from all over America mingling together. I really enjoyed chatting about Agile in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Below is the presentation I gave at the event:...
Luiza Pagliari and I, Paulo Caroli, gave a talk on the history of Continuous Integration (CI) and CruiseControl at the 2010 FISL conference (International Free Software Forum).We talked to Martin Fowler and other colleagues at Thoughtworks and to gather (and validate)...
September 15 2009, Ken Schwaber and Jim Cundiff resigned from the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance. Below is an excerpt of the messageMessage from the Board of Directors On September 15, Ken Schwaber resigned as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of...
Since I bought my first e-reader (Amazon Kindle 1), I have reduced the number of printed reading material I carry around. Instead I have been carrying my kindle, which is full of reading content.Today I was reading ThoughtBlogs in a café. I was off-line, away from my...
2009 is the year that the Brazilian IT market has been taken by Agile. I have heard about successful projects developed in Brazil using XP since 2002. But IMO 2009 is the year that Agile became mainstream in Brazil.The following are a few of the Agile conferences held...