Partnership & Possibilities

The latest Agile Chronicles Newsletter email edition offered me the option of downloading the second Annual “State of Agile Development” survey. Seventeen hundred individuals responded to a boatload of questions from VersionOne. In response to the question, “Which of the following practices do you employ within your Agile methods? (check all that apply)”, thirty-nine percent [...]

Erik Petersen posted a note on his blog that referenced a website for, of all things, a bicycle touring group that needs to run effective meetings. Lori Walter, writer of the “Guides: Meeting Facilitation”, describes a technique for managing the flow of conversation when facilitating a session where a group/team needs to think together. I [...]

I haven’t written many posts lately. It’s been a busy summer. So I’ll make up for it with a two-fer today. Next week I’m attending the Agile 2007 conference in Washington, D.C. Wow! Just a few short years ago, we worked to gather a couple hundred people and now, the conference sells out in the [...]

Bas Vodde posted an article on action planning in retrospectives . It’s a tough issue, and I agree with Bas’ take on it. Team members need to see clearly how the actions they choose will affect their work long term. Bas suggests each proposal for action links each near term action with the long term [...]