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 [...]
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It all started with this tweet from J.B. Rainsberger:
jbrains I consider never using the phrase "best practice" a best practice. #wcr09
I RT this, just like many other people.
I like to think I immediately understood what JB mend. For me it what it means is that, from the moment people start to call [...]
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My three questions:
1 What have I finished yesterday.
2 What do I commit to finish today
3 Where do I need help?
==>So these are a little bit different as the ones from Jean.
I don’t make the link between what I promised yesterday and what I have done yesterday. Because it might be that [...]
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Esther Derby gave a great presentation @ Agile 2009 called Performance without Appraisals: what to do about performance reviews.
In this TED talk, Daniel Pink quote’s some research that proves why appraisals don’t work for Information Workers.
Vera Peters and myself gave a workshop in London on the same topic. You can find [...]
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In the first video, you see the people checking out the Lego, when their bosses of the first exercise come in (32 seconds) and explain what needs to be done. In the first part, the two leaders are directive leaders. They take all the decisions in the game. The intention is that they have a [...]
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On Wednesday 6 august I am delivering our leadership game at Agile 2008. This game uses a lot of LEGO.
We have two options: moving all my Lego to Toronto (and find people that can help transport it, as it seems that we might be having to much to take with 2 people.
Or find people in [...]
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Doing planning & estimation is never easy. When I started doing agile, doing agile planning & estimation looked even harder. That was until I played the XPGame. Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe created the XP game years ago (the first use of the game I know was in 2001, but I know it was [...]
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During most of my workshops I am using hourglasses.
Last Monday during another successful GTD course, I got again the question about where I bought them.
I buy them online at Minerva Online. If you need them urgently, send me a mail I still have a lot of them at home.
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual [...]
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I have posted a while ago my problems with the new KBC online way of working.
This post explains how to make KBC Online work on Vista. This article does not talk about the installation of the Smart Card readers.
When I tried to use it using the KBC Online activator everything seemed to work fine. [...]
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On Monday 05 may & Tuesday 06 may my father and I were in Paris. Instead of visiting this beautifully city we enjoyed the people from the French Agile community.
Although the organization before was rather chaotic, XPDay.FR 2008 itself was splendid.
The first thing I noticed when we arrived was the Job Board. Hey [...]
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More and more companies are going agile. For a small company it is the best way to outperform your big competitors. For a big company it’s the cheapest way of working. (Some big companies have to much money to care about this.) Still I am happy that more and more companies ask me to teach [...]
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Some time ago, I was working as a project coach. Everything was fine, I was working with a great team, iterations were delivered on time.
Their was a small problem in the company. One person did not deliver on time. The person was nice, but he constantly under delivered.
I proposed to the CEO to [...]
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I completely agree with Martin Fowler on this one. Better programmers out perform worse once. (And that is why they are cheaper in the end.)
It’s a very nice example of More is less.
Maybe one slightly change to his article: in an truely agile team, when the better programmers pair with the lesser ones, they will [...]
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