It was a large group this month at the SL-Agile roundtable. As my laziness continues, all you get again this month is my raw notes. I’ve bolded my main take-aways.
Agile 2009 Roundup
Kanban: the gap in inventory in the next station. Kanban pulls from the end, not push from the front. You would only code new [...]
Every month I have great intentions to poor over my notes from the SL-Agile Roundtable and post the fantastic tidbits I collect. And most months it just doesn’t happen. So, in the spirit of my up-and-not-perfect-is-better-than-down-and-perfect philosophy, I’m just going to post my raw notes. If there is something in there that you want some [...]
It was another great SL-Agile roundtable discussion this month. After the Agile Roots conference I wasn’t sure what to expect. This month we had the usual motley crew and few new faces. There were about 12-15 in total. As a bonus, Ron Holliday in town for a visit. Ron has been working with Fidelity for [...]
Facilitated Planning Session
Christian described a recent meeting, facilitated by Alistair Cockburn, where they were able to bring together several disparate company divisions, create, and organize over 100 use case story names in half a day. Alistair led the group through facilitated brainstorming, affinity grouping, and dot voting.
Ethics
There was a great question about the apparent lack [...]
This month the roundtable was made up of about 8 people. Mostly old timers, with a few newer faces.
We spent quite a bit of time deconstructing Alistair Cockburn’s questioning style. Alistair, the founder of the SL-Agile group and Agile icon, was not at the meeting, so we talked about his behind his back. Alistair [...]
In the Agile software development world, there is a common practice among development teams called the daily standup. At a set time each day, everyone involved in the project gathers in a common area where they hold a mini meeting. It is called the standup because you are required to stand. This keeps the meeting [...]
A little background: For the last 10 years or so I have been attending a monthly roundtable discussion in Salt Lake City, Utah, started by local industry icon and author Alistair Cockburn (the ck is silent). It was originally called the Object Oriented Roundtable, and focused on technical programming topics. But all we talked about [...]
