Tag: pomodoro
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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Saturday, 26 September 2009
Outside, in
Posted by Simon Baker
We create software by working inwards from the user experience. Maintaining focus on the users' perception of the system, we do just enough to satisfy the needs of the user rather than what we think is necessary or cool. On a regular basis, we come up for air to check context and avoid getting lost in the weeds. We decide which direction to go next based on where our client sees value and consider how we're going to demonstrate what we've created so far. We don't jump into unit land because trying to connect all the pieces at the end doesn't produce a good solution.
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Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Focus On Intent
Posted by Gus Power
I frequently use the term 'focus on intent', especially with respect to the writing of story cards and acceptance criteria. When I'm focused on intent:
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Friday, 28 August 2009
We won the Gordon Pask Award
Posted by Simon Baker
We're very pleased to receive this year's Gordon Pask Award. We'd like to thank the people who are part of our adventure: The crew at Energized Work who continue to inspire and challenge us; our clients, who have been courageous enough to try something different; and our friends in the agile community who have supported our endeavors. This award is for them all.
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Friday, 24 July 2009
Time isn't the problem. How you use time is
Posted by Simon Baker
Don't bother managing your time. Manage your focus. We use pomodoros to sharply focus on achieving a goal every 25 minutes. If you focus on the activity you'll just wheel-spin and dig a hole. So focus on the goal - what you want to achieve.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
Pomodoro galore
Posted by Simon Baker
Almost everything for us is now a pomodoro. Some time ago we replaced the per-iteration planning game with on-demand planning pomodoros and the end-of-iteration retrospective with a pomodoro retrospective.
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Pomodoro-powered promiscuous pair-programming
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile 2008, Gus attended a session about the Pomodoro Technique by Stefan Noteberg and has been using it since.
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