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Tom Perry
- Sep 5, 2014
- 2 min
Those are Not MY Impediments!
When trying to find impediments there is a trap that awaits those of us who are outside of or observing the team. Often, when you are...
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Tom Perry
- May 3, 2011
- 2 min
Finding Your Voice
When some people transition from traditional project management to Agile, they seem to lose their voices. These are people who had great,...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 23, 2010
- 2 min
Moving People Between Teams
So, let’s pretend that you are working someplace where you have two or more teams working on development projects. Furthermore, let’s say...
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Tom Perry
- May 23, 2010
- 1 min
Bad Programmers
There was an article in the CACM recently that caught my attention entitled, “In Praise of Bad Programmers” Still here? Apparently the...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 14, 2010
- 3 min
Exploring The Project Jungle
Grab your pith helmet and join me for a little journey. Shhhh! Be vawy, vawy quiiiet, we’re hunting for projects! We move through the...
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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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Tom Perry
- Aug 3, 2009
- 1 min
Using Mistakes to Build Team Cohesion
So I scratch my head and wonder, “What’s wrong with these people?” There seems to be this invisible barrier – they accept me because they...
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Tom Perry
- Aug 1, 2008
- 1 min
Using the Agile Cookie Cutter
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...
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Tom Perry
- Jul 20, 2008
- 2 min
Trust Your (Bleep)ing Team!
Here is an issue that has come up over and over again – scrum masters and product owners that don’t trust the teams they work with. I’ve...
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Tom Perry
- Jul 16, 2008
- 2 min
Do Donuts Exert a Gravitational Field?
A few years ago I went to the Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) in lovely Cupertino California. I was kind of a loner at the...
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Tom Perry
- Jun 5, 2008
- 3 min
Story Completion and Acceptance
In our last sprint retrospective we were not able to complete nearly 50% of the stories in our sprint. What was up with that? The last...
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Tom Perry
- Jun 3, 2008
- 1 min
A few experiments in Agile
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...
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Tom Perry
- May 27, 2008
- 2 min
Learning to Shut Up
You know, sometimes the hardest part of working with a team is learning to shut up. During the honeymoon phase of a project (forming),...
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Tom Perry
- May 22, 2008
- 5 min
A few Ramblings on the Topic of Swarming
Here are a couple of definitions of swarming: 1 a: a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 19, 2008
- 2 min
Creating the Right Environment for Teamwork
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...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 22, 2007
- 1 min
What does it mean to be a “Cross-Functional” team
As a coach, I’ve encountered a great deal of confusion when talking to teams about building a cross-functional team. Often, as soon as I...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 12, 2007
- 2 min
What’s a Waterfall?
As an Agile coach and a trainer I often compare Agile methods to “Waterfall”. Waterfall is a bad thing. We all do it. When we are...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 11, 2007
- 7 min
Top Ten Ways to Destroy Agile Teams
There are a few disruptive corporate behaviors that have been bothering me for a while. Forgive me for a moment while I get them off my...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 1, 2007
- 4 min
A Lesson from the movie “300”
So, you’ve experienced the Agile transformation now. Your team has a planning meeting, everybody goes to the stand-ups, and you do the...
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