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Thirty-Five Technique

by Tomek Dabrowski January 15, 2011

It had been a long time since we had done our last retrospective. There were a few reasons for not doing it, but the most important was the customer and his deadlines. We did everything in a hurry as more and more functionality had to be added, having no time for internal process improvement. Release had been done [...]

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Thirty-five

by Paul Tevis January 8, 2011

Thirty-Five is a collaboration technique1 I learned from Lyssa Adkins at Agile 2010. She mentioned it in one of the sessions she was leading and didn’t have time to include it but said she’d teach it in an Open Jam if anyone was interested. About a dozen of us were, so later in the week [...]

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Rob Scebold’s agile coach journey

by Robert Scebold December 13, 2010

I appreciate Lyssa’s point about there being many journeys to becoming an Agile Coach.  Though my college degree is in engineering, my career has traveled far from that discipline and looped back around via a management path.  Software engineering is not even in my background!  So, I am perhaps the most unlikely of software development [...]

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Using a value journal to land an agile coaching job

by Karen Spencer October 12, 2010

When I was hired on a contract basis to fulfill the brand new role as Agile Coach, I realized that my “coaching” would be difficult to quantify for my manager. Having just read “Coaching Agile Teams,” I decided to follow’s Lyssa’s suggestion of keeping an Accomplishment Log (aka Value Journal). When my contract was up [...]

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The quest for high performance

by Tom Reynolds September 23, 2010

Over recent months I have been working with Lyssa Adkins to improve my coaching skills. One of our areas of focus has been team start-up and our expectation that we have for our teams to become high performing. In our work together, Lyssa shared some team start-up exercises to use with new teams. I had [...]

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