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Comment on Have You Signed The Agile Manifesto Yet? by Gebhard Greiter

Gebhard Greiter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:24:27 +0000

My advice would be: Don't sign the Manifesto - Think beyond the Agile Manifesto.For defining Agile we should focus on the goal of Agile rather than on the misleading way suggested by the Agile Manifesto: Please readThe New (2011) Definitions of Agile andBe agile – forget the Manifesto.

Comment on Have You Signed The Agile Manifesto Yet? by Julie Hendry

Julie Hendry — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:12:25 +0000

http://agilemanifesto.org/sign/display.cgi?ms=all You and one other person are the reason I didn’t say all the good people I’ve met have signed …

Comment on Have You Signed The Agile Manifesto Yet? by Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:00:12 +0000

Where do I sign?

Comment on Agile Ah-ha’s by Olivier Lafontan

Olivier Lafontan — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:34:17 +0000

Totally agree. One of the games I run a lot for my clients is – still! – the excellent http://www.xp.be/xpgame.html/" title="XP Game". These sessions as supposed to take 3 hours, I always schedule them for 4 hours.

Also, the other thing I have found out that helps people "learn" during the game, is to ask them at the very beginning of the session what they came to learn: I capture this as a list and make it the Acceptance Criteria for the session. It helps me tremendously adapt how I run the game depending on what's on the list.

At the end of the session, the group goes through the list once more and discuss what they have learned, and what they want to learn next. Found it very useful!

Comment on Farewell Scrum Alliance by cowconsulting

cowconsulting — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:03:07 +0000

What would you like to know? The dirty details can be found in my previous blog post but ask away!

Comment on Farewell Scrum Alliance by Agile Scout

Agile Scout — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:21:13 +0000

Wicked. Do tell more

Comment on Agile in India by cowconsulting

cowconsulting — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:15:29 +0000

This was a repost Keith, but I agree that there are challenges everyday in persuading senior management that they too need to change especially in the baby boomer generation who are also typically those in senior positions. And location in India makes a huge difference too – Bangalore is modern and cosmopolitan, some other cities are much more traditional in every way.

Been drafting a ‘senior managers need coaching too’ post for too long now

Comment on Agile in India by Keith Sterling

Keith Sterling — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:03:17 +0000

Unfortunately not my experience at all. The past 18 months I have spent working with another Indian company who fail at every level to adopt any form of agile practices. Their company culture is one of downward autocratic management coupled with team staffing of very junior people who are to new into their career to challenge the very heavy waterfall metholody they persist in adopting.

Unless senior management in these companies buy into agile approach, then there isn’t a chance of it gaining ground at the team level.

You are in a very lucky position

Comment on I’ve hit a snag by cowconsulting

cowconsulting — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:05:44 +0000

Still standing by these comments

Comment on Top 5 Ideas – Intercultural Agile updated by Keith Sterling

Keith Sterling — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:27:46 +0000

>Interesting post, several years ago a number of my team were very strict Jewish Orthodox, and meant that fridays were pretty much a none starter for them. Instead they came in after their sabbath on a saturday as a normal working day.

Initially hard to get used to for the team, but then we came to accept that we had a dev team covering 6 of the 7 days of a week rather than 5.

Once we sorted out the communication process, and handover on Thursdays it started to work well as we could provide a greater level of support to customers without having to get people to agree to work 'weekends'

I had the same number of FTEs, just spread over 6 rather than 5 working days