Tom PerryJul 9, 20152 minDriving Self-Organization“Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.” -George Burns I learned to drive in...
Tom PerryOct 7, 20142 minAnnouncing The Swarming Development MethodBy now, you’ve probably figured out that I’m laying out all the guidance for using Swarming as a legitimate, full-fledged, Agile method....
Tom PerryOct 6, 20141 minEnvironments for SwarmingWhat kind of environment would best suit a swarming team? I just stumbled across something called the SOLE toolkit while researching this...
Tom PerryOct 5, 20142 minSwarming ResourcesHere are some of the books and web sites that researched as part of my investigations into swarming. There are a few that I should...
Tom PerryOct 4, 20142 minProject AnarchyRecently I’ve been writing a series of posts on a rather radical methodology that I call Swarming. I describe it as a method that enables...
Tom PerryOct 2, 20142 minStarting Swarming“prattle without practice” ― William Shakespeare, Othello Enough prattle! All this theory is great, but how do we actually set the...
Tom PerrySep 30, 20144 minSwarming ContextThe application of Swarming as a method can be broken down into four main contexts. For each context the process of swarming is...
Tom PerrySep 29, 20142 minTeam GeneticsToday I was listing to “The Splendid Table”, a great cooking show on NPR. They were talking about variation in growing heirloom tomatoes....
Tom PerrySep 28, 20142 minBroadcast CommunicationIn the agile development community, we are all hip to the notion of two way communication. It can be via any mechanism you choose: email,...
Tom PerrySep 27, 20142 minSwarming RolesSo far in this series I have covered the values and principles of the swarming methodology. Now let’s talk about roles on swarming teams....
Tom PerrySep 26, 20141 minSwarming PrinciplesIn an earlier post I introduced a set of values that might be used to guide swarming teams. Values are a good start. They provide very...
Tom PerrySep 23, 20143 minThe Values of a New Methodology: SwarmingPerhaps the time has come for a new methodology. The old methodologies are showing their age as they are gradually incorporated and...
Tom PerrySep 20, 20143 minHunting for The Elusive Swarming RuleThere are a variety of different ways of going about swarming. There is the ad hoc approach: all hands on deck, everybody find a way to...
Tom PerrySep 14, 20144 minHierarchy vs. Constellation“Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate...
Tom PerryMay 3, 20111 minThe Fractal Beauty of ProcessThere is something about a well designed process that I find mesmerizing. It really doesn’t matter if it’s XP, Scrum, Lean, or Kanban the...
Tom PerryDec 22, 20091 minAgile Teams Better Found Than Made?I’ve been dabbling with the idea of swarming and how it might relate to team organization in software development for a couple of years...
Tom PerrySep 10, 20095 minWhat I Learned From My Daughter’s First Grade ClassroomThe new school year is beginning and my daughter is starting first grade. I had an opportunity to go to her elementary school open house...
Tom PerryApr 23, 20091 minI’ll be doing a tutorial at Agile2009!#Agile #Agile2009 #Presentations #speaking
Tom PerryJul 23, 20082 minSwarming Meets “The Blob”An let’s face it, what is a man eating blob from outer space really made of? I bet it was just a slime mold. The blob was probably just...
Tom PerryJul 12, 20081 minUpcoming Swarming PresentationsAs we get closer and closer to Agile 2008, Dhaval and I are spending a lot of our time refining our presentation, Swarming: The Birds and...