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    Driving Self-Organization
    Tom Perry
    • Jul 9, 2015
    • 2 min

    Driving 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...
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    Announcing The Swarming Development Method
    Tom Perry
    • Oct 7, 2014
    • 2 min

    Announcing The Swarming Development Method

    By now, you’ve probably figured out that I’m laying out all the guidance for using Swarming as a legitimate, full-fledged, Agile method....
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    Environments for Swarming
    Tom Perry
    • Oct 6, 2014
    • 1 min

    Environments for Swarming

    What kind of environment would best suit a swarming team? I just stumbled across something called the SOLE toolkit while researching this...
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    Swarming Resources
    Tom Perry
    • Oct 5, 2014
    • 2 min

    Swarming Resources

    Here are some of the books and web sites that researched as part of my investigations into swarming. There are a few that I should...
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    Project Anarchy
    Tom Perry
    • Oct 4, 2014
    • 2 min

    Project Anarchy

    Recently 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...
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    Starting Swarming
    Tom Perry
    • Oct 2, 2014
    • 2 min

    Starting Swarming

    “prattle without practice” ― William Shakespeare, Othello Enough prattle! All this theory is great, but how do we actually set the...
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    Swarming Context
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 30, 2014
    • 4 min

    Swarming Context

    The application of Swarming as a method can be broken down into four main contexts. For each context the process of swarming is...
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    Team Genetics
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 29, 2014
    • 2 min

    Team Genetics

    Today I was listing to “The Splendid Table”, a great cooking show on NPR. They were talking about variation in growing heirloom tomatoes....
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    Broadcast Communication
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 28, 2014
    • 2 min

    Broadcast Communication

    In the agile development community, we are all hip to the notion of two way communication. It can be via any mechanism you choose: email,...
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    Swarming Roles
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 27, 2014
    • 2 min

    Swarming Roles

    So far in this series I have covered the values and principles of the swarming methodology. Now let’s talk about roles on swarming teams....
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    Swarming Principles
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 26, 2014
    • 1 min

    Swarming Principles

    In 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...
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    The Values of a New Methodology: Swarming
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 23, 2014
    • 3 min

    The Values of a New Methodology: Swarming

    Perhaps the time has come for a new methodology. The old methodologies are showing their age as they are gradually incorporated and...
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    Hunting for The Elusive Swarming Rule
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 20, 2014
    • 3 min

    Hunting for The Elusive Swarming Rule

    There 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...
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    Hierarchy vs. Constellation
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 14, 2014
    • 4 min

    Hierarchy vs. Constellation

    “Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate...
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    The Fractal Beauty of Process
    Tom Perry
    • May 3, 2011
    • 1 min

    The Fractal Beauty of Process

    There 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...
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    Tom Perry
    • Dec 22, 2009
    • 1 min

    Agile 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...
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    What I Learned From My Daughter’s First Grade Classroom
    Tom Perry
    • Sep 10, 2009
    • 5 min

    What I Learned From My Daughter’s First Grade Classroom

    The new school year is beginning and my daughter is starting first grade. I had an opportunity to go to her elementary school open house...
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    I’ll be doing a tutorial at Agile2009!
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 23, 2009
    • 1 min

    I’ll be doing a tutorial at Agile2009!

    #Agile #Agile2009 #Presentations #speaking
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    Swarming Meets “The Blob”
    Tom Perry
    • Jul 23, 2008
    • 2 min

    Swarming 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...
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    Upcoming Swarming Presentations
    Tom Perry
    • Jul 12, 2008
    • 1 min

    Upcoming Swarming Presentations

    As 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...
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