the Imperitive to improve our industry’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
How well do you understand your Product Owner’s world?
Are you looking for a game to teach self-organization and empirical process control to teams? CardZinga! can be played in-person or online. Get the instructions and see examples at CardZinga.com
Whole (Food) Systems Health: regenerating our teams and ourselves
Design Thinking and Agile
Acrimony within the Agile Community
Mob Programming for Vendor Management
Read any good books?
Training from the Back of the Room
Vic is a TBR Certified Trainer of Sharon Bowman’s Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) curriculum, and he’s offering two upcoming TBR classes in California:
August 4 & 5, 2018 (prior to Agile2018) in San Diego
September 15 & 16, 2018 (after AOSC) in Irvine
Visit TBRCal.com for more information and to sign up for emails (and discount codes).
On the eve of #SGCAL, Vic (@AgileCoffee) is joined by Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale), Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead), Colleen Kirtland (@AgileBohemian) and first-time guest John Eisenschmidt (@jeisensc) for an outdoor session in sunny Southern California.
Too many branded flavors of Agile?
The need for Leadership beyond “Servant Leadership”
Final rundown of events at Scrum Gathering in San Diego:
Festivities kick off Sunday with the CST/CEC retreat, the first-ever CSP retreat, registration and an evening mixer.
After an beach-boogie opening on Monday, Jeff Sutherland will take the stage with a keynote address; and the first day closes with Monday Mingle – a short walk down the boardwalk at Wave House, featuring a wave machine and Woodie and the Longboards
Vic was interviewed on episode 34 of AgileNext, a podcast by Daniel Gullo and Stephen Forte. Check it out at agilenext.tv.
Announcing the return of the Agile Coffee Conversation Starters: three volumes of cards to kickstart great talks. Now you can get the original decks once again from agilecoachingcards.com, with a free gift of the all new Agile Coach’s Toolkit deck.
Get to know the co-chairs for next April’s Scrum Gathering in San Diego.
This episode features Vic (@AgileCoffee) speaking agin with Kim Brainard (@agilebrain1). In July, the Scrum Alliance selected Kim and Vic to serve as co-chairs for next April’s Global Scrum Gathering in San Diego.
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!
A 100% Skype-based episode! Vic is joined by Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer), Zach Bonaker (@ZachBonaker) and first-time guest Alan Dayley (@DayleyAgile).
Today our heroes discuss the following topics:
Is “Quality Assurance” an inhibitor to developing with agility?
Scenario: You are an experienced ScrumMaster just joining a new and dysfunctional team. What is your first goal?
“Falling off the cliff” scenarios
Common problem: The team does not update their progress on tasks and user stories in the electronic tool. So?
The Director says “Plan for more points in your next Sprints or we won’t get all this work done.”
It’s an onsite company visit! Vic sits down with four employees representing Dev, QA & PMO at the Data Protection Unit of EMC Corp in Irvine, CA, to discuss how the transformation to Agile has changed things up. Also on hand is Scott Dunn (@sdunnRocket9), facilitating the transformation activities and coaching at many levels within the business unit.
Back from our hiatus, Vic is once again joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan), Zach Bonaker (@ZachBonaker) and Garrett Borunda (LinkedIn) at the Cape Rey in Carlsbad for a lively morning of Agile and Coffee.
In this episode, our Agile heroes discuss:
What to do at the first bump in the road
Which practices would you eliminate?
Thinking big and small
Reach out to Vic (@AgileCoffee) and use the hashtag #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.
Recorded live from the Agile Open SoCal (Irvine, California), Victor (@AgileCoffee) is joined by three new guests: Aaron Griffith (@Aaron_Griffith), Colleen Kirtland (@CSKirtland) and Brock Nunn (@BANunn). In addition to general comments about the Open Space event, we also discuss:
Mob Programming and the Anti-Sprint Invasion
Were you surprised at the Agile Open?
The Importance of Culture and Behaviors in Agile
Agile for Social Betterment
If you missed the SoCal open space, consider attending Agile Open Northern California on October 9 & 10. More info at agileopencalifornia.com.
Victor is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@waterScrumBan) and Ryan Ripley (@RyanRipley) of the excellent Agile for Humans podcast for a double-sized, ultra packed episode of Agile Coffee for Humans.
In this episode, our Agile heroes discuss:
The HR Side of Agile – Performance Reviews, Raises, & Transparency
The Business of Agile – How we justify the investment in agility
Ken’s Complaint -Trademarking Scrum Group
Crossing the line – push and pulling hair
Organisational Psychotherapist, the new coach – a reflection on Bob Marshall’s Why Me?
Agile Transformation – The REST of the story (like Paul Harvey)
Agile games, simulations and learning activities – see my post on games
