I wish I was in a position to choose my customers 😉 In my experience an agile “transition” (I know, it’s a journey and you never get there, etc.) needs both top-down and bottom-up support – but just setting it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
I find trainings quite knackering. Probably because I’m more inclined to preach than actually teach 😉 The drawing in this strip is so not to my satisfaction. But you gotta deliver – the joy of agile comics 🙁
This is borrowed straight from Klaus Leopold – quite literally, that’s his Kanban board in the comic! He has long been of the opinion that having a few agile development teams is a far cry from being an agile business.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As verified by RB’s wife, this is not what RB actually looks like. For which I’m sure she’s very grateful 😉 Having said that, I may not have rendered his features very well, but I think I captured his taste[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mostly I’m a retro fan. However, I have found myself in certain situations at customers where “teams” are being force-fed agility. This is not conducive to constructive retros 🙁 This was (retrospectively) a good learning experience, because having expended a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The original idea for the agile drill sergeant was born after a couple of pints and a difficult day. An approximation to this was one of the first test sketches that I drew to see if it was more than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, for a long, long time, I didn’t have a very high opinion of managers. Mostly because my expectation was that they would lead, whereas in reality they seemed to spend most of their time administrating! This bothered me, because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
