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Cynefin: Sense-Making in a Time of Turmoil
With a pandemic raging around the world, how can you and your agile team make sense of the world around you and adjust accordingly? The Cynefin frame…
6 years, 2 months ago
Do Release On Fridays
When a client tells Squirrel "of course there are no releases on Fridays", it's a red rag to a bull. After Squirrel rants for a bit, he calms down an…
6 years, 3 months ago
Gaining Emotional Awareness
Following up from last week, we propose some ways to become emotionally aware, which we argue again is a key skill for success in an agile team. We s…
6 years, 3 months ago
Walking the Line: Emotional Unawareness
Prompted by a listener, we look at a tool from Jim Dethmer called The Line. This leads us to discuss the value of being emotionally self-aware with a…
6 years, 3 months ago
Measuring Teams
How do you know if a software team is any good? How can you compare teams and the commercial value they are producing? And what are metrics good for…
6 years, 3 months ago
Multi-Sprint Stories
A listener asks us what to do when a story takes longer than one sprint. Our suggestions involve turpentine, slicing elephants and walking skeletons.…
6 years, 4 months ago
Big Bang Badness
We tell the story of a company demanding that developers finish a huge project "so they can test it just once", and then explain why this is only a g…
6 years, 4 months ago
Escaping the Room of Pain
Squirrel tells the story of the most painful manual testing experience he's ever been part of, and we discuss the value of manual testing, how humans…
6 years, 4 months ago
Handling Constraints
Squirrel's client is struggling to deliver because product managers are a bottleneck. The Theory of Constraints gives us a framework for addressing t…
6 years, 4 months ago
Withholding Information
No matter how safe you make your retrospectives and other discussions, if your team don't have the skills to share information, you're running a subs…
6 years, 5 months ago