The Brazilian Conference on Agile Methods – Agile Brazil 2010 – is a non-profit national conference organized by representatives of the main Brazilian Agile communities. The event’s goal is to promote communication and collaboration among its attendees aiming to disseminate the Agile culture throughout the country. Agile Brazil 2010 will be held in the main … weiterlesen →
Category Archives: Good to know
Best Practices and Continuous Improvement
Mike Cohn [1], wrote in his latest book “Succeeding with Agile” [2] that calling something “best practices is dangerous” [Cohn 2009, p. 9] and not a good idea for adopting Scrum. In case a company calls it a best practice, then continuous improvement stops. He refers to Taiichi Ohno [3] who said that standards are … weiterlesen →
5 min on Scrum | Trust Line Exercise
In a Certified ScrumMaster training I did with Peter Hundermark [1] in Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago, he introduced us to a nice exercise: The Trust Line. You and your partner are opposite of each other. Between you and your partner is a line. Now you need to convince your partner, opponent, to change … weiterlesen →
Storytelling in Trainings and Coaching
“People learn by experience or by listening to Stories.” This is the abstract of the message of the latest post by Garr Reynolds. [1] He also talks about the importance of emotions in transferring information to people. Use stories and emotions to enhance you coaching or teaching in any situation. I can only recommend Garr´s post to … weiterlesen →
HotNews: CollabNet buys Danube. Scrumworks has a new owner
CollabNet buys Scrum-specialist Danube CollabNet, provider of solutions for Agile Application Lifecycle Management (Agile ALM), has taken over Danube Technologies Inc., a world wide leading company for Scrum project management solutions. [1] Is an era about to end? Or was it a skillful move by Victor and his brother to increase market presence of ScrumWorks? … weiterlesen →
Retrospectives | 7 Secrets of my Retrospectives
Running Retrospectives is NOT an art, but a craftsmanship. Effective facilitation of meetings and retrospectives is possible for everybody. I want to give you 7 secrets here: Believe that the people in your team did the best they could during the Sprint. First collect facts. There are several ways available to do this, but please, … weiterlesen →
Presenting | Fearless Talks
15 min before my talk in Dornbirn I was in panic! A super cool room, more than 100 people, the best media technology support I ever had and I had not prepared a presentation on slides. My idea was to do a dialogue with the people, but the room… In “Confessions of a Public Speaker” … weiterlesen →