20. Our Twentieth Coffee on the Record
This just in! We’re announcing that Vic will serve as facilitator for the upcoming Coach Camp. To learn more and see who will be attending, point your browser to AgileGathering.com for all the info about Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 For this episode, Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for a lively morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: Offshoring Wisdom – is this practice achieving its objective of lowering the organization’s development costs? Tenure and Great Teams – How can we retain our people? How long does it take for a coach…
19. When Jon and Brett Came Back with Tapes
For this episode, Jon (@WaterScrumBan) and Brett (@brett_palmer) find themselves reminiscing about their trip to Indianapolis for Agile Coach Camp last September 26-28, 2014. There they met Bryan Beecham (@BillyGarnet) of Iceberg Ideas and Mike Bowler (@Mike_Bowler) to discuss the following topics: Using LEGO to teach technical topics – Mike has begun posting some of the LEGO exercises for teaching TDD and other XP principles on his site at gargoylesoftware.com. Brett referenced Rory (Story) Cubes and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Diana Larsen and Ellen Grove. Bryan paraphrased Kent Beck from Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Continuous Learning – Learn as fast as possible,…
Lean Coffee in the workplace
Recently I was asked about using Lean Coffee (LC) in the workplace, something I’ve been doing for the past few years. While I’m a strong advocate for LC’s workplace applications, I’d like to start with my view of the broader picture. (I’ve written about my experiences with LC before, but this post has more experiences to back it up.) I’d originally heard about Lean Coffee three years ago when I met Jim Benson at SFAgile2012. I immediately fell in love with the framework, so much so that I switched my twitter handle to @AgileCoffee. Once I returned from the conference, I started a bi-weekly…
18. Agile in the Hundred Acre Woods
Say, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for quick and efficient morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: Dale started things off telling us about Pooh Camp, Disney’s take on O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. This inspired questions and conversation from Brett, Jon and I (organizers of this year’s ACCUC in California). Does UAT have value for Scrum teams? Time-boxing elaboration and requirements discussions…
17. ‘Tis the Season for Lean Coffee
Before we begin… have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! New: Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 – AgileGathering.com for more info Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for peaceful morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: Why is IT Ops the next big thing? We discussed Jez Humble and David Farley’s Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases…
16. Do Agile Methods work with ERP Projects?
Vic is joined by returning guest Dale Ellis (@theDigitalDale) and newcomer Alberto Hernandez for a fresh brew of Agile topics: “Death March” Scrum and Kanban – Dale bases this question on Edward Yourdon’s “Death March“ How can ERP implementations be sped up using Agile methodologies? – Alberto has much experience with ERP rollouts but wants to know how they can improve Internal Hackathons – Vic talks about running a four-day coding event inside his company Announcing Agile Coach Camp US West. For the first time on the US west coast (and only the sixth time in the USA), Agile Coach Camp is…
15. A Great Day for Agile, a Great Day for Coffee
For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Dale Ellis, Larry Lawhead and Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) in an undisclosed location for a lively morning of Agile and Coffee. In this episode, our Agile heroes discuss the following topics: having fun with self-organizing teams – we mentioned Game Changers and Mike Bonifer’s ERGO framework organizing daily meetings with kanban – ever heard of chorei or asakai? Neither did I. We discussed Dave Anderson (Microsoft) and “walking the board” voting when you can’t see eachother – Larry introduced another timely topic long-term value of a coach / scrummaster – Dr. Dave…
14. What is Core Scrum?
Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for peaceful morning of Agile and coffee. In this episode, our heroes discuss the following topics: upcoming Agile conferences self-help in free software core scrum TDD takes 2x as long? Reach out to Vic (@AgileCoffee) and Jon (@WaterScrumBan) on Twitter – and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.
13. Not an Unlucky Session, Not At All
Superstitious? Maybe. But for this brew Vic and Jon are joined by Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com) for peaceful morning of Agile and Coffee. In this episode, our heroes discuss the following topics: Estimating 2.0 (photo forthcoming…) four categories for stories: no progress, sizeable, spike, emergeable product mentioned: Time Cube How is Scrum used in Construction referred to pg.82 of Jeff Sutherland’s upcoming book “
12. Three Amigos or the Dirty Dozen?
A fresh brew: Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@waterScrumBan) and Brett Palmer (@Brett_Palmer) for another morning of Agile and Coffee. In this episode, our heroes discuss the following topics: pre-review of “Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time”, Jeff Sutherland’s upcoming book from Crown Publishing. we’ll be holding a review of the book in an upcoming episode, including book giveaways – stay tuned how does this book relate to Joy, Drive Collaboration Explained and Tribal Leadership? Nerf Gun Economy inspiration from S.Bowman’s “Training from the Back of the Room” Brett recommends the video of Katie Brown,…