Just for fun, I’m going to keep some of my post-it notes in a box to show to my grand-kids, “Back in my day, we used to use these things to

I got a fitbit bracelet the other day. It’s a pretty nifty gadget. It tracks the number of steps that I take in a day, as well as...

How do you experience Agile? I’m not talking about the process, the rituals, or the artifacts. I’m certainly not asking you to...

Last week I led a session at Agile Open Northwest called, “Slowing Down”. The idea for this session was inspired by my own struggles with...

On a task board there are two places that we can capture additional detail regarding the tasks we are working on: In the tasks and...

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...

Tired of doing the same old retrospective every sprint? You know how it goes: what went right/what needs improvement/action items. Are...

A post on “Executable Design” from Chris Sterling inspired me today. I’ve started running TDD workshops with the teams that I work with....

What if we could model the interaction of teams the same way that we model the behavior of slime-molds, ants, and other simple organisms?...

How would you set up your next project? What would you require? I know what I’ve tried in the past – here’s a brief inventory of my...

With scrum, we try to deliver business value every sprint. That’s easier to do with some projects than others. If you have a mountain of...

Here are a few ideas for things we could try out to improve our teams: Work on only one story at a time Minimize square footage of the...

One complaint that I hear from people who don’t like a given project tracking tool is that there is actually too much information on the...

Since my last post listing Agile planning tools a few more have come to my attention including: GreenHopper ScrumDesk TargetProcess XPWeb...

At work everyone on the team have their own offices. It’s a pretty nice setup: lot’s of space, privacy – in short, it really doesn’t get...

A few notes on this list: I tried to collect just the tools that are written specifically for the purpose of Agile planning. I know that...

My first impression is that these are two applications that have come from very different backgrounds. ScrumWorks started off as a java...

The task board is the single most important information radiator that an agile team has. A task board illustrates the progress that an...