AbOrigineMundi

This card game can be played in itself as a cooperative card game, or it can be used to explain why limiting Work in Progress (hence, WiP card game) is a good idea to work faster and more evenly.

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“User stories are just use cases but in a different format”, the analist told me, “so why introduce a new name for a known thing?”

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Many agile teams use planning poker to estimate the relative size of items in their product backlog. Yet the usual planning poker with the (rounded) Fibonacci numbers can be applied the wrong way. Or better, in a suboptimal way. Fruit Estimation Poker to the rescue!

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Friday May 20th and Saturday May 21st, agilists gather in Ghent for the 2011 Agile Open.

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For those who don’t know it: the XP Days are the best agile conference in the Benelux, perhaps even in the universe.

The XP Days 2010 are over, but these two video’s will tell the story forever.
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A few collegues and I participate in the “Confessions of an Agile Project Manager” by the PMI Agile. We sent in our 6:40 video in pecha kucha format (which was not easy to do, but refreshing and rewarding too!). Topic: our agile experiences within SD Worx.

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Enkele weken geleden kreeg ik van een kennis een linkje doorgestuurd die ondertussen mijn werkwijze op verschillende vlakken heeft veranderd. De gratis service Dropbox valt onder de noemer “Cloud computing” maar is in feite een heel eenvoudig concept:

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At first sight, Kanban looks deceptively simple. You visualise your workflow, put some work-in-progress limit to every stage, and that’s it!

This is indeed the basics for any succesful Kanban. But why are these two principles the driving force behind Kanban? And how can we teach people these basics in a way that they understand the principles, not only know them by heart?

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As an agile coach, you probably have a keen eye for group dynamics. There is no meeting where the importance of group dynamics is as evident as in the daily standup meeting (your team does that, right? Meet each day to discuss what to do and what hinders progress?)

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The triastorm technique in a nutshell

The goal of the Triastorm technique is to find novel ideas, to solve problems. It relies on the scientific study of problem solving, but Triastorm defines a pragmatic and simple process practictioners can use for business or everyday life, in group or individually.

In the future, software will be made available to support the triastorm technique.

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