Agile

I saw a great video the other day explaining the working culture at Spoitfy and later that day on Twitter I saw a nice image showing how they they build products and it really resonated with me and the message we were trying to get across in this video. I feel this is a great image to use with customers to help explain what I think is the best way to approach building a new product. I think it might also be better than my previous favourite the Agile Mona Lisa. Update - part 2 has just been released

I recently gave the following talk at Microsoft in Canberra and then again at SSW in Sydney. The SSW TV guys filmed me during the Sydney talk and here is the resulting video. This video is great for anyone wanting an overview of Scrum and how well it works with the new TFS 2012. If you already know Scrum then you might be able to learn from how we implement Scrum at SSW.

When it’s a status update. The Daily Scrum (or daily stand up) is one of the most misused rituals in Scrum. If your Daily Scrum meetings are not a short, snappy, energetic synchronization of the team then it is probably a sign that something is wrong.

One of the best things about Scrum is the Sprint Retrospective. The Sprint Retrospective is the opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint. The Developments Team’s self inspection begins by each member of the team answering the question “What worked?”