Thanks First First I would like to thank Paul Klipp for inviting me to be a part of the first annual AgileCE conference – as a speaker, as part of the program committee, and as a sponsor. I felt the conference went extremely smoothly. Registration lines were non-existant (with a full house), coffee was flowing  Read more »

Gwyn Morfey and Laurie Young from New Bamboo jumped onto stage after playing some footage of the New Bamboo team at work. First thing Gwyn told us was change things. Quickly. Incrementally. They then dug in. Throughout there were skits, funny funny skits. Here’s part of one: Now the goodies. The Sword (Of Integration) Must  Read more »

Here are the slides from my AgileCE presentation on distributed Agile in a multicultural world. Thanks to everyone who came and thank you all for your questions. View more presentations from Robert Dempsey. 0

Andrea Provaglio’s talk was Beyond Agile, and focused on people, the hardest part of Agile. Specifically he spoke on team dynamics. The Past 20 Years of IT We’ve been building software like everything else – factory style So we went Agile – to avoid huge messy phases; yet failure still exists Software is intangible –  Read more »

The first session of the day was Pierluigi Pugliese talking about solution focused Agile coaching. He ran the session as a workshop, which made it much more interactive. We are typically used to looking at a problem from a point of view of solving a problem. Solution focused is the opposite. Rather than focusing on  Read more »

If you want to read a politically correct post, then please go somewhere else, as I would prefer to not offend your sensibilities with what I’m about to say. With that disclaimer and warning said, let’s begin. I’ve been having a great time at the Agile Central Europe conference. Paul Klipp has done an excellent  Read more »

The single lightning talk at Agile Central Europe was from Marc, @scrumphony, on 10 things to drive your scrummaster crazy. Use these fantastic tips today! 0

The final talk of day 1 of Agile Central Europe was Simon Roberts talking about sustainable Scrum transitions. Simon specializes in helping large enterprises implement Agile (specifically Scrum) for particularly difficult projects. So the man must be pretty patient. In the hallway before the talk Simon had some interesting points on Kanban, but those will  Read more »

Mack Adams spoke about the Invisible Agile Coach, which was a sessions on and for Agile coaches. The post that follows is the outline of points from his talk. Hold on to your seats as there’s a ton of info. Let’s Begin What makes an Agile coach? Depth of Agile knowledge Experience on multiple Agile  Read more »

To describe the presentation on communication problems in Agile projects by Monika Konieczny  would not give it justice. After comparing IT project to cake, she gathered three volunteers from the audience, gave them come guidelines for making a cake, and put them to work. Here’s a quick video of part of it. There were a  Read more »