“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 Southern California. I’...

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. It looks like this: ...

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

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 probably re-read too. That...

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 individuals to beco...

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

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

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

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, instant messaging, ...

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 nature, when you...

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 broad guidelines to gi...

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

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 help. Then there are ...

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

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 end result is the s...

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 the other day. A wor...

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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 misunderstood. There ...

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 the Bees and Agile....