25 January 2012
marion
This article, published in the Financial Times Germany in December 2012, is about Landau Media, one of agile42s long time customer. Unfortunately the article is only available in German, but maybe google translate will help :-) Marion
Marion Eickmann
I am one of the founders of agile42. Even though I am not an engineer I
consider myself almost a "Techi" as I have been working in the field of
software development for 10 years now.
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This article, published in the Financial Times Germany in December 2012, is about Landau Media, one of agile42s long time customer.
Unfortunately the article is only available in German, but maybe google translate will help :-)
Marion
17 June 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Yves Hanoulle as Awesome Coach of the Week 24, 2011!
Yves Hanoulle has been one of the first people I met whom I identified as an agile coach. From the many amazing people I met at the AgileCoachCamp Germany, he was one of the few where I noticed they asked questions rather than gave answers… And he’s been a role model for me in the way he intensively connects to the international community.
PairCoaching
One of the hardest challenges for a coach is how to replenish your energy, and, more important, where from. Coaching in pairs and working in a team of coaches is the most efficient way to ...
12 May 2011
marion
One marshmallow, 20 pieces of spaghetti, a bit of string and some tape. How can children learn agile leadership and life skills with those items you ask? Welcome to the Marshmallow Challenge!
(Upper Lynn Elementary, North Vancouver, May 11, 2011) The challenge was on today for Mrs Horner’s Grade 3 class to learn a few life lessons and have fun while doing it! The students were asked to build the tallest, freestanding structure with a marshmallow on the top made only using spaghetti, string and tape. Who would have thought a marshmallow weighed so much? And so the learning begins.
Active parents Dave Sharrock, agile42 Coach and Doug Jaremchuk who consult in Lean and Agile methods felt that the Marshmallow Challenge was not only beneficial for corporate executives, but also a ...
15 April 2011
OlafLewitz
Why do adults start playing with LEGO® at work?
StrategicPlay® is a method where you model systems using LEGO® bricks and gain understanding within the team of their parts and interactions. For this understanding to actually lead to new insights and opportunities, the full creative potential of the group is included. Find out how that works with lots of colourful examples!
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Idea Farmer and Linchpin.
My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
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Build a tower, higher than everybody else's! Now a raptor, exactly according to specification! And now you've warmed up a bit: Model your biggest challenge for next year!
Why do adults start playing with LEGO® at work? Let's start big...
Systems—Complex, Adaptive, Hard to Understand?
Complex adaptive systems are alluring to human understanding. The world, climate, a swarm of bees... To understand them is an intellectual challenge. I can't escape them—most projects I come across develop complex adaptive (software) systems for complex adaptive (organisational) systems. Wow.
To govern them, you need to understand them ...
7 April 2011
marion
Meet agile42 at the Scrum Gathering in Seattle. Dave Sharrock, VP agile42 North America will talk about: Breakfast - the most important meal of the day.
Breakfast - the most important meal of the day. Certainly, if you miss breakfast around mid-morning you can find yourself lacking the energy and motivation to keep on working; Missing out on a good breakfast can doom you to an ineffectual and frustrating day. The kick-off of a major transition has a similar impact on the success of the transition.
But how can we increase the chance of success on a large transition? What is a 'good breakfast' when starting a large transition? What should be avoided? Drawing from our own experience of many successful transitions, and learning from the experiences ...
19 November 2010
marion
Visti agile42 at the ISACA CALGARY 2010 FALL CONFERENCE
The ISACA Calgary Chapter is presenting a professional development opportunity on November 25, 2010. This conference will provide you with relevant learning, give you an opportunity to network with others in the professional community and also provide 9 CPE hours - all in one day.
Dave Sharrock, VP Professional Services will talk about:
Agile meets Audit: Meeting Information Security Requirements with Agile Teams
Event Page
12 May 2010
garbrand
At Sipgate the Product Owners made a very nice room with a lot of whiteboards to plan their work.
The Product Owners at Sipgate have organized themselves around a large set of whiteboards on which they track and plan the work for their Releases. This is a great way of getting immediate visual understanding about how you can realize your Release Goal.
On the first whiteboard they put the Requirements they'll be working on in this release, decomposing them in Minimal Marketable Features (sets of User Stories) which they can then plan in each Sprint. Each Sprint has it's own whiteboard again, so it's very easy for them to move stories from one sprint to the ...
16 February 2010
garbrand
The Ableton team builds a LEGO City as part of the Scrum training.
As always we put theory into practice by building a LEGO City at the end of a Scrum training. The attendees are challenged to build a LEGO City from a Product Backlog in a very limited building time, of course using Scrum. This lets the people really feel what it means to self-organize, to sprint and to have a retrospective. Also working against a Product Backlog and with a Product Owner is something that you need to experience.
In a couple of 5 minute sprints, the teams build, refactor and integrate their LEGO creations. Many aspects of Scrum in software ...
30 September 2009
garbrand
Vote for Agilo: Agile Software Development is running a poll to find out what is the most popular or recommended agile project management software.
Agile Software Development is running a poll to find out what is the most popular or recommended agile project management software.
So if you like Agilo please head on over to the poll and vote for Agilo. We would be really curious to see what the agile project management landscape looks like, so the more votes the better.
So, along with the Agile Software Development blog we are calling all agile bloggers and providers of agile tools to please promote this poll. It would be great to get a comprehensive poll of the marketplace and see what tools people recommend ...
14 September 2009
garbrand
In Groningen we did a Scrum Master & Team Training with Goldmund, Wyldebeast und Wunderliebe and Four Digits, as always culminating in a wonderful Lego city!
In Groningen we did a Scrum Master & Team Training with Goldmund, Wyldebeast und Wunderliebe and Four Digits, as always culminating in a wonderful Lego city!
To have the people at the training really experience what it is like to work as a self organized team we end our training with a Lego city exercise. In this exercise, the people are to organize themselves to build as much as possible from the backlog in a number of 5 minute sprints, coupled with a retrospective and a planning session.
Here we see engineers at work. The backlog is broken up into Requirements ...
