Agile methods like scrum and XP are very exciting, especially when you are first introduced to them. There is something very common sense about the ideas in ...

OK, Mr. Peabody, where are we going today? Well Sherman, Any time I explain what Scrum or XP is, I start with time boxes. The time box method has been around...

The introduction of agile methods has brought a wave of innovation in the business world that some might argue has revolutionized thinking about how organiza...

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...

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 becoming quite over...

Sessions Silo Busting w/Tom Perry and Lourdes Vidueira Yeah, that’s me. It was our big session. And just for the record, we rocked the house. In fact, the pe...

Conversations What can I say? The restaurant open bar last night was epic. Actually I wasn’t saying very much at all to anyone this morning… Sessions Keynote...

First a brief note on the important things: The breakfasts: While I don’t think anyone is going to beat last year’s xp2010 hotel in Trondheim for its extrava...

The first day of XP2011 got off to a good start today. As your roaming reporter I think I will break down my experience of day one into the following categor...

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...

I was having a conversation once with an executive sponsor who was frustrated by friction between competing organizational silos. One silo adopted Agile, the...

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...

I’ve been thinking a lot about impediments lately. OK, maybe obsessing is a better word. I know it’s the word my wife would use. Note to self: do not refer t...

Why is it so hard to come up with impediments sometimes? I know that impediments are all around me – literally everywhere I look. So why is it that when we d...

Categorizing things can be a very useful tool for understanding the world around us. I watch my 2 year old daughter doing it all the time. She points at a ro...

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