Experiential Book Club / Lean Coffee Mashup
I am starting a new experiment at work – an experiential book club. This is not your auntie’s traditional book club. No tea and biscuits. (Although they’d be nice if we could virtualize them.)
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Resolutions: Changing Habits & Personal Kaizen
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone. All the necessary holiday shopping is (hopefully) done. Presents have been delivered and stashed away in a favorite hiding spot… and are ready to be put out under the tree or into that stocking hung with care. So what’s left to do? Why …
Don’t Hate Your Job…There Really is Greater Happiness
Some accepted an invitation. Others arrived serendipitously. Me, I became aware of Happy Melly after reading the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. I followed a few different breadcrumbs: from the online resources on the “hub” or by noticing Melly’s smiling face on blog posts. Something resonated. At Happy …
Team Daily Stand Up – What Does Great Look Like?
Don’t let the simplicity of the daily stand up agenda – “Yesterday, today, in my way” – fool you into thinking that it is easy to master. Behind this elegant minimalism you’ll discover fine grained coordination, emergent discovery, accountability, and the heartbeat for an entire team. Know what a good stand up looks like …
What Makes for A Good Agile User Story?
Agile User Stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature or function told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability represented by the story, usually a customer. They focus on the result or value that the user or customer gets. User stories can be big (but not …