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Entries for March 2012
Linda Linda has wondered for some time whether much of Agile’s success was the result of the placebo effect, that is, good things happened because we believed they would. The placebo effect is a startling reminder of the power our minds have over our perceived reality.
By: Deborah Hartmann Preuss:
Overview:
This card game highlights your Team’s hard-to-reach Big Goal.
Players write cards with Obstacles outside their control, stopping them from reaching the Goal.
Then together they use Fearless Change++ patterns to design influence Str...
We live in a world where democracy is the norm. Anywhere you ask, people are going to state loud and clear that they believe in democracy. But do they? This widely popular yet controversial webcast examines the roots of democracy and hierarchy, and explores what some real companies are doi...
In May of last year I was able to run my first Pay It Forward Scrum Training at the University of Bern in Switzerland. I had blogged about this event there: The 1000 Students Challenge.
Last week-end I had the chance to do the second run at the University of Applied Sciences (FHNW) in Brugg...
Vincent Tencé of Pyxis Technology talks with Ken Schwaber about the state of the Agile movement and ways to improve the efficiency of Scrum teams. Recorded at the Scrum Breakfast in Montreal, Quebec, on July 14, 2010.
A colleague from my team started playing golf lately. Totally unexpectedly for me, I found out that these days equipment is not expensive any more and you do not need to be a club member. Since playing golf alone is not as much fun as playing together and having some competition, my colleague persua...
Scrum is the most adopted and recognized agile methodology. However, there are still challenges to Scrum adoption. Martin will dive into several Scrum adoption pitfalls and how an organization can avoid them. In particular, we will highlight some of the proven practices that have worked for diverse ...
Our culture is conditioning us to instinctively think of success as a one-time event. In movies when lovers finally overcome obstacles and get together the story ends – “they lived happily ever after” (the interesting questions is: “how?”). In sports an athlete runs, ju...