Do you have a list of things to do, but don't know where to start? How about colouring and marking...
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[Sequencer] How to Order and Prioritize
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Strategy and Planning
Path to Production
A path to production maps the steps, people, tools, tasks and output for software request/change...
Stand-up meetings don’t steal your time
We've been in some teams in the past that people were seeing stand-ups as a burden. We've heard various complaints: "I wish I could do some real work in the time I spent in stand-ups" "I don't care what the team does, I have my isolated work to do" "I can't wake up in...
Inception activity for discovering User Stories
On this blog post I share an activity I used on my last Inception. I found this activity very useful to kick start the User Stories creation. What are the goals of this project? This question triggered the conversation about the business goals for the project. ...
Back to the basics: What made this Agile Inception especial?
The following two pictures depict the latest Inception I participated at. A little bit of history: For the past two years I have participated directly in 3 Inceptions, and indirectly in 5 inceptions. By directly, I mean, I was sitting in the war room for most of the...
Agile Micromanagement, the good and the bad
Jim Highsmith wrote an interesting post about micromanagement. He mentioned Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are good examples of successful product manager micromanagement. I totally agree with that. He also talks about the Agile process micromanagement. Experiencing both...
The world is flat
Here is my friend and coworker Ygor in front a flat screen tv connecting Porto Alegre to San Francisco, Ohio and Bangalore. For Ygor the world is flat. Flat as that 32 inches tv which he uses to communicate with a distributed agile team with a common goal of building...
The hand-off kanban email
Effective communication is key for distributed Agile development teams. Many technologies and applications are very helpful for improving the communication channel for distributed teams. To name a few: video conferencing, phone, email, wiki, instant messages, text...