I committed to deliver this podcast as one of my outcomes from my Tribal Leadership Intensive One class. I struggled for months to record this and make it sound right, in the last four weeks I pushed through and made it happen! I am so happy and proud to finally put this out on the website!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to finally introduce Agile Talk, my monthly podcast discussing my experiences using agile methodologies.
As part of the promotion for “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum”, I co-wrote an article last month with Elizabeth Woodward for AgileConnection.com (originally AgileJournal.com>. We wrote about how to create, prioritize, size and groom the product backlog with distributed teams.
To read the article, please click here.
In this audiocast interview, Steffan Surdek talks briefly of the IBM Press book he co-authored with two other IBMer’s, “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum.” He describes three key concepts: continuous integration, automation and test-driven development (TDD) and how they can lead to higher quality for software projects, regardless of methodology or team distribution.
Last week, I did an interview with Yvette Francino, the editor of the Search Software Quality area of the TechTarget web site and had a fun adventure! Now that our conversation is available online, I decided to talk about this experience. As usual, if you want the details you have to read on…
The summer was quite a whirlwind… A new job meant lots of adjustments for me. From the simple stuff like commuting every day instead of working from home to learning to have people around me again. It’s been rather interesting to say the least. I have been having some communication challenges in the last few weeks and it’s made me question myself a bit. Tonight, when I got back from work, I had a bit of an epiphany and I think I finally figured out hot to address these challenges… Is this teaser just vague and intriguing enough to get you to read on?
I made a new friend at a user group meeting recently and he started talking about some challenges he was facing with his team to transition them to agile software development. He read a lot about the subject matter and wanted my opinion on what his team needed to do to be successful in their transition. To read my thoughts on what they can do, please read on…
Back in January of this year, I started writing an article on the basic of agile planning. I was originally writing this as educational material for my team but felt it could be something publishable… So, for your reading enjoyment, you can find it on DeveloperWorks by clicking here.
There are some differences between what I wrote and what they published so eventually, I’ll put up the original version of the article on this site.
This is an article I submitted back in the summer of 2007 for publication in DDJ magazine on the challenges teams meet when doing Globally Distributed Development. They took the nibbles that were interesting to them and turned it into a sidebar article in the August 2007 issue. This is the full version of the article I submitted. I originally wrote this in the mindset of being the master team. I’ve been working remotely with a team for the last year, it would be interesting to revisit this topic from my new point of view.