Baby’s First Cubicle
By: Chris Sims If you are a really good boy, Daddy will get you a red stapler too… Oh, there are still seats available in our Certified Scrum Product Owner workshop. No one under 6 years of age admitted. Cheers, Chris
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Test Driven Development Bowling Kata
By Chris Sims My friend, Llewellyn Falco, recently shared this screen-cast of himself doing a code kata. I like the way he approaches the problem, and I think it’s a nice demonstration of test driven development (and/or behavior driven development). Cheers, Chris BTW: There are still seats available in this weekend’s experiential Certified ScrumMaster workshop.
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XKCD Shell
By Chris Sims I just noticed that XKCD, my favorite geeky web comic, has a cool unix-like shell interface available! In other news, there are seats available for this month's Agile Learning Labs Weekend Certified ScrumMaster workshop, and Weekend Certified Scrum Product Owner workshop. Get 'em while they are hot! Cheers, Chris
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Administrative Assistant Wanted
Agile Learning Labs is a small startup company in Foster City that delivers training and coaching to project managers, executives and software developers. We are looking for a part-time administrative assistant who relishes being part of a small team as much as we do. You will be responsible for managing the infrastructure of the business, [...]
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Better Retrospectives
By: Chris Sims Today is retrospective day at Agile Learning Labs. Every month we do an all-hands retrospective to continuously improve how we run the business. It's timely then, that my latest article on InfoQ is Rules for Better Retrospectives. Check it out, and learn about James Carr's top five 'rules' for better retrospectives. If [...]
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Forget Maximizing Shareholder Value
I was a new manager doing annual performance reviews for the first time. I wanted to do a good job, and to truly align my group's work with the company's 'bigger picture'. I wanted to know why we existed, what we were trying to achieve, and what we valued. So I asked my manager. The [...]
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Experiential Intro to Agile at Agile Open Northwest
By: Chris Sims Today finds me in Seattle for the Agile Open Northwest conference. This morning I lead a session called "An Experiential Introduction to Agile" which was based on our Experiencing Agile mini workshop. I invited participants to share their insights on sticky-notes, with a promise that I would post them. So, here they [...]
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Daily Scrum – The Fourth Question
By: Chris Sims The standard Scrum Stand-up meeting, AKA 'The Daily Scrum', has each participant answering 3 questions: What have you got done since the last stand-up? What do you expect to get done by the next stand-up? What impediments are in your way? I usually included a fourth question: What news do you have [...]
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Agile Learning Games at AgilePalooza San Francisco
By: Chris Sims I just found this video from AgilePalooza San Francisco 2009. It’s Yours Truly facilitating a short game that explores what certain interpersonal dynamics ‘look’ like when we act them out very explicitly. This one is me reporting out about a session I had hosted early in the conference called “Agile Leads to [...]
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Prioritize Your Scrum Team’s Work