Hi, Mary & Tom Poppendieck will lead their "Implementing Lean Software Development - Practitioner's course" in Denver on Oct 28-29. This is their only...
Ian, Rally rocks. Its not heavyweight - on the contrary its pretty nimble and simple for such a sophisticated tool and adheres closely enough to XP/Scrum way...
I'm doing a webinar on June 10th that we've found very helpful to Agile/Scrum practitioners - particularly those trying to convince testers and developers to...
did not see one on mary's site, can any one give me a good link that releases new rss feeds occasionly on good lean software developemnt topics? thanks. ...
Scrum masters really earn their living by help their teams get better. At the heart of this is the feedback and process improvement opportunity, the ...
Great idea Robin. Clarke .oOo. Sent from my BlackBerry www.ClarkeChing.com +44(0)7920114893 ... From: "Robin Dymond" <robin.dymond@...> Date: Sat, 28 Jun...
... Robin, Thanks for your efforts here, I'm sure many people will find them helpful. ... Small point, Scrum Masters are not the only people who hold ...
Personally, while I applaud Robin's initiative with a retrospection wiki (and believe that's a great place to put the results of retrospections that people are...
I agree that Scrum Masters are not the only ones interested or holding retrospectives. I called on them because Scrum specifically calls out facilitating...
I'm responding to Allan Shalloway's comment that "Scrum needs to be guided by Lean thinking." I agree wholeheartedly, in the sense that Scrum appears not to ...
What is a strategism? ... rapid, cost efficient strategisms and mechanisms for improvement, While Lean is great, trying to say Six Sigma or CMMI add the same...
... Problems I have seen: - retrospectives don't happen - they happen by people don't trust one each other (or the company) to name the problems - project...
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... Nice article. I disagree that retrospectives are an advanced technique, even though many people seem to struggle with them. It takes a certain amount of...
... I'm of the opinion that retrospectives are NOT a process improvement mechanism. The process improvement happens outside the retrospective. <<< I second...
Allan, ... <snip/> ... solvers, ... I know a couple of sociologists and they tend to describe what they do as more "finding the problem" than "solving the...
Hi all In my experience I see retrospectives being one possible starting point for kaizen: namely they serve as a way to collect observations about pain ...
Hi all, Jumping in the middle, here I am. Coincidence or not, just about a few hours ago I finished a SCRUM retrospective meeting with my team, and this thread...
... So we see the problem, we determine the solution but the team just don’t get it. (and) The team isn’t contributing as much as it should <<< I suggest...
... Hi, Igor. I'm afraid what you describe sounds less like a retrospective than a process improvement meeting led by a project manager. While that sounds...
... I think a lot of people are wrestling with the same issue. Corporations understand what a "Project Manager" does but not a "Scrum Master" or "Coach" thus...
Hi everybody, I'm the coworker that Igor have talked about. Allan, thanks for you response. It was insightful. Bellow, I made some comments and questions. I...
Hi Michael, Thanks for your contribution, and I will have to agree with you. Knowing what’s wrong and what to do to fix it is the first phase of acctually ...
Hi George, First of all, thanks for you answer. I'll just add a couple of comments allright? ... Humm that might be passing in the mind of the team. Just to...
Hi Allan, Thanks a lot for your insights, they were of much help! Let me just put up some comments, allright? ... job ... I think a lot of people are wrestling...
... You basically start with a short round-robin. Ask a simple question that should be answered with one or two words (literally!). Go around the group and let...