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On February 3rd, 2013, a few minutes into the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl, the Superdome in New Orleans was suddenly plunged into almost complete darkness. It was an astonishing moment during America’s biggest sporting and advertising event of the year. With the entire stadium almost completely dark, the championship game between the Baltimore […]

Many agile teams struggle to incorporate design thinking into their agile delivery. Bridge Journey Maps and User Story Mapping enable fast, responsive delivery, making customers awesome.

Let’s talk about hardware and software, convenience, interruption, defects, and the dreaded Unintended Consequence. Context Some time ago I bought some cool booster fans that sit in my floor ducts where the vent covers usually are. Each of these is an identical semi-smart device that monitors the temperature INSIDE the ductwork. When the AC kicks […]

SprintMojis are a full set of emojis for conveying common feelings during Sprints.

There are so many tools floating around to help us work with each other remotely – screen sharing for meetings, remote desktop control for mobbing and pairing, video connections to maintain rich team engagement, chat channels for quick updates, forums for archived group thinking, wikis for documenting team knowledge. Of course we all want remote […]

With the 2020 outbreak of the Coronavirus, many companies are implementing work-from-home policies. If you are a team that is suddenly converted from being co-located to distributed, here are some tips on staying productive. Team Charter First, this might be a great time to review the team charter. When the team becomes distributed, it can […]

The manager looks across the room at the team members. It’s 8:45 and everyone should be in attendance. Where’s Rob? Surely he’s not still at his desk? “Okay let’s start on the left and go around the room,” the manager says, as she always does.

In A Tale of Two TDDers, I quickly documented what I see as two different defect-fixing behaviors of Test-Driven Development practitioners. I spent all of about ten minutes writing that blog. It generated a lot of interesting discussion, some of which bordered on deep misunderstanding. More detail would have helped. And so I dug through […]

I’m going to be using a metaphor that not everyone can relate to since not everyone is on a speaking circuit. My hope is that this metaphor will teach you two things: how to plan a conference talk, and how to approach doing big things quickly.

The story you are about to read is as much about customer responsiveness as it is about software development. The story lies at the intersection of the principles, Deliver Value Continuously and Make Safety A Prerequisite. Finally, the story is based on real-world experiences in a real code base. Let’s begin… A customer reports a […]