by Roger Brown
I had the honor to present two sessions at the Agile2010 conference this week with my co-host Mark Levison. These sessions are the latest in our collaborative quest to bring the findings of neuroscience into our work as Agile coaches. (more…)
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Here are some thoughts on multitasking in IT – assigning people to multiple projects at the same time. Multitasking Gets You There Later.
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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.