Agile game design
It was going to be fantastic. 241 game cards and a 24 x 36 inches game board would make the maiden play of the Quadrants of Effectiveness game an unforgettable event. Sure, some minor adaptations would...
View ArticleLeading at the edge
I like to believe that people don't choose the books they read, but that books choose their readers. Leading at the Edge by Dennis Perkins is one of those books that arrived in my hands in the most...
View ArticleGrowing Agile Locally
For over 9 years now, XP Toronto has been organizing regular meetings with sessions much like those found at the conferences I attended in Europe and North America. When I arrived here a little bit...
View ArticleQuadrants version 1.0
Last Monday, the Quadrants of Effectiveness game was officially introduced at XPDays Benelux. About 25 participants were brave enough to sit around five carefully designed game boards, digest version...
View ArticleImagine
Imagine an island with no roads, no infrastructure for our western luxury, and people who do what they have been doing for a long time. Sure, they have challenges, but they get by. One of those...
View ArticleThe undocumented agile practice
Many books are written about practices that help teams produce better software. No doubt many of you immediately think about pair programming, test driven development, retrospectives, planning and...
View ArticleDo you collaborate or cooperate?
A group of individuals only becomes a high performing team when the potential of the whole is more than the sum of the potential of its individual parts, a lot more, actually. Putting people in the...
View ArticleTime boxing
Time boxing is quite a simple concept. You specify an activity and duration and you’re done. The only basic rule is that you do not perform the activity longer than the specified duration.In agile...
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