Posts Tagged agile coaching
Talking the talk
Wow! Coloured strips take forever. At least if you’re as inexperienced as I am… About 7 layers: background actual panels & title pencil sketch of the cartoon itself (made invisible later) base colours light and dark shades actual black inked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Management Expectations
As someone once wrote, twice the value in half the time – or twice the effectiveness – would have been a more agile formulation. Twice the work in half in the time sounds like pure Taylorism! So a friend and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Making a contribution!
As an external consultant, you don’t always get to pick your customers. Sometimes Sales has sold your services without you even knowing about it. This can result in some rather pointless agile transformations where there is no appetite for change.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting steamed!
This happens quite often on a Friday night. It’s a cheap form of therapy 😉 Unfortunately though, it’s a required form of therapy. As anyone who has read the strips will have noticed, frustration at the lack of management engagement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stand by your team!
One of the harder things, that I find, about being a scrum master or agile coach is letting the team make mistakes so they can learn from it… But that’s the essence of agile 😉
PTSD
It has been a fun ride. I’ve got to beat the shit out of managers, take the piss out of windbags and air my views on agile topics that are important to me. Very therapeutic! I never expected to create[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Agile Allocated Resouces (Projects in Process – PIP Limits)
Should have called this “Projects in Progress limits”. Seeing as this is an “agile” comic, I might just do that 😉 The original idea was that the only agile aspect of the set-up is the way the team has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Retrospective Revenge
I have always wanted to to this. Actually, I still want to do this! Drawing a cartoon strip as therapy doesn’t seem to be working…