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Interesting conversation today around the book "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug. As it wrapped around UX (user experience/interaction) and UI (user interface), someone made the point that both the agile team and the application itself go
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More excellent content from the Pfeffer/Sutton book (page 94)... What is true for individuals is also true for organizations, groups, and teams. Exceptional performance depends heavily on experience and effort. No matter how gifted (or ordinary) team
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From "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense" by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, Page 78 Employee loyalty, engagement, and commitment are important benefits, but not the whole story. In a typical organization, people charged with
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Last week, I spent a big chunk of my time pairing with various members of the team. With some, it was a few minutes, with others, a full day. It was fabulous . First, of course, was that I was actually writing code . There is a particular joy in that,
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Today's challenge was a two-part discussion. Part One: How do we define "done" when talking about story cards? We've had our share of challenges dealing with cards that were put in the "done" stack, but were not considered done by all members of the team.
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A week of learning, meeting people, establishing new connections, and realizing how much I do and don't know about agile. I got to hear and meet some of the household names in the agile community: Alistair Cockburn , Diana Larsen , Esther Derby , Christopher
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There's all this fascinating stuff going on. I attended a session on pair programming, as I mentioned in my last post. There was some excellent discussion about the challenges of pair programming, and a few fun exercises designed to help us learn some
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Time flies when you're attending a conference. This is my first technology conference in a few years, and I'm loving it. And I'm immersed in the world of agile development and agile project management and all sorts of related topics. I started out with
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