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1. In Hindsight…
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... they really were. So when we want our agile teams to reflect on the past, just employing the teams’ collective hindsight is not what we want. In an agile world, retrospectives are about an open and honest ...

2. Agile2010 Reflections
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

...  A new experience for me this year was serving as the stage producer for the agile adoption stage. So added to the week was the anticipation to see how our stage team's work came to fruition as the conference ...

3. Agile2010 Presentation
(Downloads/Presentations)

... teams can often start regressing backwards in the 'J-curve' effect after a few iterations. Using a skills maturity framework, organizations can assess where they are and accelerate their agile adoption ...

4. Stairway to Agility
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... better return for your projects? Maybe improving the morale of your teams and retaining your current employees longer?  Launching an agile adoption to "become agile" is not likely to produce much in the ...

5. Speaking at APLN Houston
(Activities/Recent Activities)

... Recently however, the APLN Houston leadership team has been working on doing a joint meeting with the local WITI chapter.  In talking with the WITI folks about what topics would be of interest, the APLNH ...

6. The Elusive Agile Enterprise
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

With agile principles and values becoming more widely accepted at the team level, a natural conversation heard in the agile community today is how to move beyond that.  How do we grow agile organizations ...

7. APLN Houston Midyear Checkpoint
(Activities/Recent Activities)

June 5th saw a midyear checkpoint meeting for the APLN Houston leadership team.  Following up on the January planning meeting, the team took advantage of air conditioning at a local library (thanks to ...

8. The Practices Isn't What's Hard
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... BRRIIIINNNGGG! - Pomodoro timer goes off, my 25 minutes are up   I can hear Venkat Subramaniam talking about shaving yaks now.  I can even hear myself patiently coaching my Scrum teams about focusing on ...

9. PMI Houston 2010 Conference & Expo
(Downloads/Presentations)

... to the conference team lead by Jane Boucher for another successful conference. Accelerating Your Organization's Agile Adoption My colleague Bryan Campbell and I continue to refine this presentation based ...

10. Agile Adoption
(Services/Consulting)

... sense for you. Together we can: Identify those concerns and issues holding your teams back and align them with the agile principles to address them. Jointly formulate an agile adoption plan that respects ...

11. Agile Leadership
(Services/Consulting)

My team is working in iterations, but at the end of each iteration we really don’t have a deliverable to show off. My business sponsor tell us his needs, but won’t look at any of the work in progress until ...

12. Maturing APLN Houston
(Activities/Recent Activities)

The APLN Houston leadership team has been doing some significant behind the scenes work in the last few months to add a bit formality to the organization for the purposes of continuity.  Transitioning ...

13. Not Suitable for Agile?
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... the well-worn "Tip" that agile is not for every team or for every project.  This clearly takes us back to the "agile is a set of practices" school of thought doesn't it? Rising above the practices view, ...

14. Agile2010 Experience
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

... invited tutorial sessions on the opening day of the conference.  The simple math: 13% of the submissions accepted.  That was hard and frustrating for the team, but more importantly very disappointing for ...

15. The Power of Self-Organizing Teams
(Blog/Robbie's Blog)

Responding to Change over Following a Plan; that’s what the Agile Manifesto says we should be doing and self-organizing teams do it quite well. One of the heartache scenarios I have always had with APLN ...

16. PMI Houston - Downtown
(Downloads/Presentations)

... culture that fosters the openness and trust needed for agile teams to truly succeed. This presentation as presented to the PMI Houston chapter's downtown venue continues to evoled as I get more feedback ...

17. PMI Houston Newsletter Publication
(Activities/Recent Activities)

... what senior management should expect from agile teams.  ...

18. Agile2010
(Activities/Recent Activities)

... Stage Producer, and Reviewer respectively.  With David's help we have gathered a strong team of reviewers and I look forward to the team creating a compelling series of sessions for the conference.   ...

19. Scrum Basics for Product Owners
(Services/Training)

... should expect from the team; and what the team should expect from the Product Owner.    Duration: Half-Day Class Size: Up to 20 persons  Topics included:   Why Software is Hard to Do Waste in software ...

20. Scrum Basics for Developers
(Services/Training)

... its roles and ceremonies, as well that the typical artifacts it produces.  In addition the workshop presents the look and feel of how a Scrum team works in the software development domain and its interactions ...