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Special SoCal CSM Next Week

July 14th, 2010 Roger 2 comments

Skip the LA commute for a day and join us for a special Friday-Saturday Certified ScrumMaster class in Woodland Hills, CA next week. Click here for details.

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Multitask at Your Own Risk

July 13th, 2010 Roger No comments

Here are some thoughts on multitasking in IT - assigning people to multiple projects at the same time. Multitasking Gets You There Later.

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Adventures in Accelerated Learning

June 28th, 2010 Roger 13 comments

I have been doing a lot of training lately, mostly in the form of Scrum Team, ScrumMaster and Product Owner classes. A teacher’s job is to impart information, hopefully developed further into knowledge that can lead to informed action. Many “learning” environments stop at the first step – delivering facts. This does not work well for Scrum training. There are not many facts to deliver. There are principles and common practices to talk about but in the end it is the intrinsic understanding and feel of Scrum that is needed for success. Read more…

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Impressions of Innovation Games

February 19th, 2010 Roger 2 comments

I attended the Innovation Games ® Consultants Master Class this week. Innovation Games are an implementation of serious games designed for marketing research. My expectation was that it would broaden my horizons to the world beyond the software project, out in that area where companies decide what products to create. Read more…

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Agile in a COBOL World

December 3rd, 2009 Roger No comments

Can Agile work for mainframe projects?

A recent coaching client is a small company that wanted to transition their entire development department to Agile. It was an easy sell to the applications people, harder to the maintenance people (until I told them about Kanban). The ones in the middle were the mainframe programmers. This company is in insurance, an industry that has lots and lots of legacy backend systems.

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The Gift Box

November 9th, 2009 Roger No comments

I got a valuable gift at Agile Open California during a workshop on Improvisational Comedy.  Read more…

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