Thursday, 22 October 2009
Timeouts and retrospectives
Posted by Simon Baker
We use timeouts and a couple of different retrospectives to drive improvement. Stop-the-line events like Pomodoro timeouts and Pomodoro retrospectives happen spontaneously within the team to solve problems immediately and produce small continual improvements. We also use a monthly retrospective for the product stream to reflect on how it's working and conceive bigger, more strategic improvements.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Product stream
Posted by Simon Baker
Think of a product stream as a small company working exclusively on a product and delivering features that excite users to maximize profit and growth. The stream invests in its relationship with users and is set up to compete on the basis of speed. It has everything it needs to conduct business, from concept to production to operational support, and unlike a project it persists as long as the product is in service. It includes a dedicated and diverse technical team that is actually part of the business and helps them use software more effectively. It self-organizes for optimum delivery and minimum risk, and produces flexible software that responds as the business learns from user and market feedback.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Rolling ownership of stories through the team
Posted by Simon Baker
We added rolling ownership for stories to our pair-programming back in April 2008 and we've been using it since.
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Two stand-ups a day
Posted by Simon Baker
For a long time now we have run 2 stand-ups every day, first thing in the morning and first thing after lunch, always at the same times and always around the board.
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Monday, 12 October 2009
Using the Gordon Pask Award to share with people
Posted by Simon Baker
We've got some ideas on how we can give back to the software community but we'd like to hear your ideas. What would you like to hear more about? Where do you want it delivered? Conferences are an obvious choice. I'm interested in user groups. Please write your suggestions as comments to this blog post.
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