Archive for December, 2009

Personal Retrospectives

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Agile retrospectives aren’t just for teams or organizations. Individuals (like you and me) also use them as a way of taking stock and choosing how to move forward—reflecting, inspecting, and adapting to the changing conditions in our lives. Chronological milestones serve as a great prompts for a personal retrospective (e.g., year’s-end, birthday, anniversary, solstice, etc.). [...]

Values vs. Principles vs. Practices

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Values vs. Principles vs. Practices in the Iron Cage of Death*: Three Go in, One Comes Out Discussions about where to start with Agile approaches tend to devolve into “you got your practices in my values”…”no, you got your values in my practices.” Trying to bridge the gap, some folks say, “look at the principles [...]