“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...

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....

What kind of environment would best suit a swarming team? I just stumbled across something called the SOLE toolkit while researching this...

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...

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...

“prattle without practice” ― William Shakespeare, Othello Enough prattle! All this theory is great, but how do we actually set the...

The application of Swarming as a method can be broken down into four main contexts. For each context the process of swarming is...

Today I was listing to “The Splendid Table”, a great cooking show on NPR. They were talking about variation in growing heirloom tomatoes....

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,...

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....

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...

Perhaps the time has come for a new methodology. The old methodologies are showing their age as they are gradually incorporated and...

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...

“Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...