Guest blogging @ 5 why’s

Roy Osherove has asked me if I wanted to blog some guest posts on his 5 why’s blog on the Core protocols.

my introduction 
my first post on the check-in protocol.

This link should give you all the post’s I’m blogging there.
I  am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can reach [...]

How to make your retrospective the heart of your agile process

This are the slides from my presentation at AgileTourToronto.
My intention with this talk was to remember my fellow agilists about a lot of the different ways todo retrospectives. Most of the examples come from one of the books on retrospectives. My slides are done presentation zen style, which means they don’t contain a lot of [...]

The Fun Factor

This video shows how you can change people’s behavior when you make them have fun.
 

I’m just back from Toronto where I did two workshops next to AgileTourToronto. Last day was AgileGameDay. A whole day of playing games to learn serious stuff.
The reasons for me behind these [...]

Tired of long meetings without decisions?

Have you ever been in a meeting that seems to go on for hours? Where some people talk like this:
BlahBlahBlah, BlahBlahBlah, I don’t have anything to add to this conversation, but I want to make sure that everyone hears my voice, BlahBlahBlah, so that I’m sure that they value me, BlahBlahBlah, and [...]

The Storming phase of the (agile) IT world

I noticed something strange the last months (year?).
Last year there were lot’s of discussions on agile mailing list about agile vs Agile. We also had discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of certifications.
David wanted to write a new manifesto.
We had discussion if Lean was agile. [...]

10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr"

I have been talking about real life deployment at Flickr for a few years. People have been asking me numbers or places where they could verify what I said. Problem was I did not remember where I read that Flickr deployed every 3 hours.
Here are the slides.
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The power of the junior on the team

I know some senior developers that don’t like PairProgram with juniors as they slow them down. First of all, the speed of the team (and thus the velocity of the team) is determent by the slowest on the team, not by the fastest. First reaction could be: let’s throw out these juniors. [...]

Facilitating: the skill of multiple partiality

As an agile coach I do quite some retrospectives. My partner asked me a few days ago how it was possible that a team that did not know me, trusted me to do their retrospective.
What I told her was that it goes much better then when I do a retrospective for a team I’m [...]

Announcing courses in Toronto

After my successful sessions @ Agile2009 & AgileEE, I’m also doing a talk at some of the Agile Tour events:
Agile Tour Geneve (12 october) http://www.agiletour.org/fr/at2009_geneve.html Agile Tour Toronto (20 october) http://www.agiletour.org/fr/at2009_toronto.html Agile Tour Bordeaux (29 October) http://agiletour.org/fr/at2009_bordeaux.html
XP Days Benelux (23-24November – Benelux) [...]

How to work with a whiteboard with a distributed team?

On agile conferences and on agile mailing list every once in a while the same question pop’s up:
"What tool should I use to keep track of my team."
I answer this every time again with a question: what are you using right now.I want to know why people want to use a tool. These days there [...]