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Distributed Agile Simulation

On November 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Coaching, Facilitation Exercises, Scaling, simulations

Simulations reveal ones default behavior. I have learned a lot about myself and my default settings when I have participated in simulations. Shout out to AYE conference, PSL workshops and may other excellent learning opportunities that have immersed me in uncomfortable simulated project settings that have enabled me to recognize and resolve personal dysfunctional traits [...]

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Kanban Exercise

On November 18, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Facilitation Exercises, kanban

Kanban at its essence is a signaling device that instructs the moving or creating in a “pull” based system. Kanban when applied within a system enables synchronization between the rhythm of demand (customer) and rhythm of production (producer). The pace or beat, of customer demand is takt time. In other words to enable just in time production of goods it is [...]

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CPR Technique

On October 13, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Facilitation Exercises, Tools & Artifacts

The software world has misused so many terms from the medical profession that one more would not hurt.

CPR – Categorize, Prioritize, Resolve.

This is simple mnemonic that aids me to be methodical in my approach towards uncovering and resolving impediments.

Categorize:

How do you view your world?

To me lack of impediments is like moving [...]

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Virtual Parkbench

On November 15, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Experience, Facilitation Exercises

For large distributed retrospectives, where participants in the retrospective are in different cities, I have created a variation of popular group discussion technique called as “Park Bench”.

Some Background: I was coaching within a large organization with different scrum teams distributed in three separate cities, Bellevue, WA; Chicago, IL and Waterloo, Canada. This organization had [...]

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Walk the dog

On June 10, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Experience, Facilitation Exercises, Tools & Artifacts

This is a simple technique with a marketing twist to its name. This title came to me while coaching a team that was struggling to behave cross functionally and were paralyzed at delivering working software at the end of their sprint. It is a simple mental discipline that I have often used in crafting good [...]

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