Lessons learned from speaking with Mary Poppendieck at the Practical Agility July meeting

Robert Dempsey is speaking about creating high trust distributed, multicultural agile environments at Agile Eastern Europe, October 9th, 2010, in Kiev, Ukraine.

It is interesting to me how often I can dispense advice, and simultaneously justify why some of it doesn’t apply to me, be it in my professional or personal life. This is one reason that I talk with as many people as I can, and listen as much as I can – so it takes  Read more »

Here’s the recording of my talk – Distributed Agile In A Multicultural World – from AgileCE. 0

This presentation by Ciprian Stăvar was entirely in Romanian. Luckily I was provided a translator – Don Ciuchete. This was an awesome experience as I got to really delve into the mind of Romanian developers and companies through Ciprian’s talk and Don’s translation, though of course some of the emotion of the talk was lost  Read more »

Here are the slides from my talk – Agile Teams Lead Business Innovation – from Open Agile Romania. 0

Daniel Nicolescu is the Chief Product Officer at Avangate and GECAD ePayment. His Open Agile Romania talk focused on cross-functional Agile teams. As a Product Officer, or a Product Manager, you deal with pretty much every facet of the business. So you gotta have people skills, and understanding of a lot of things – technical,  Read more »

Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. I had the great opportunity to share a cab from the airport with Janet, along with a few breakfasts. She’s a great person to speak with, very knowledgeable, and not dogmatic (my kind of person). After speaking with her  Read more »

This is the second time I’ve had the opportunity to hear Rachel Davies speak, the first being her keynote at Agile CE. Her depth of knowledge along with her humility makes her an awesome person as well as a great speaker. The book she co-authored with Liz Sedley – Agile Coaching – is a must-have  Read more »

At the heart of every business, software or otherwise, are teams. Agile teams are those built to adapt and respond to change, which is continuous if you’re living in the same world I am. Can innovation have rules? Certainly many Agile methods have rules, or frameworks within which Agile teams operate. Can creativity be effective  Read more »