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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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Product Owner takes Vacation?

On May 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Experience

The role of a Product Owner with in Scrum teams or that of a Customer in XP teams is critical to the success of the product. What to do? – when they take vaction. What are your options? Say your product owner is going on a planned vacation for a couple of weeks, effectively unavailable to [...]

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Making sense of Best Practices

On December 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

A Best Practice is a collection of tools/techniques/approaches/methods when applied in prescribed order delivers desired results effectively and efficiently. “Best” in the term “Best Practice”, to me, implies that there is no further room for improvement, ever! There seems to be an implied sense of finality, why use anything less than the best? There also [...]

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