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Posted by Angela Druckman on March 6, 2012
On March 5th, I presented the webinar, “Building a Better Backlog: Strategies for Long Term Success in Agile Development.” In the session, I shared strategies on how to build and maintain a good product backlog by describing the overall concepts and techniques for backlog management and how each of the project contributors can contribute to [...]
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Posted by Angela Druckman on February 25, 2011
A major shift is happening in the organizations that are moving to an Agile way of doing business. Not a shift in the Agile principles themselves, which have remained essentially unchanged since their conception. Rather, at CollabNet, we are seeing a fundamental change in the way organizations approach an Agile transformation. Gone are the days [...]
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Posted by Angela Druckman on June 19, 2010
Like many Scrum trainers, I use the Ball Point Game in my Certified ScrumMaster course. We do it fairly early on, in the first hour, before we’ve gotten know each other. I use the Ball Point Game to show teams that they in fact already know how to do Scrum, meaning they know how to [...]
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Posted by Angela Druckman on April 6, 2010
With the recent popularity of the film “Invictus” and its inclusion as an Olympic sport coming in the 2016 games, many Americans are being exposed to rugby for the first time. Those of us who engage in agile software development practices know that the term “scrum” has its origins in rugby and that Scrum, the [...]
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Posted by Angela Druckman on January 19, 2010
Brian Tracy is an author and public speaker who specializes in helping people improve their effectiveness through, among other things, better time management. I was fortunate enough to hear him speak at an event many years ago. In his presentation, he said something that made quite an impression on me. Though I didn’t know it [...]
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Posted by Michael James on October 22, 2009
Unnecessary task switching is wasting millions of dollars of human attention. Teams lack the focus and months of continuous membership stability to reach the self-managing state needed for high performance and high quality.
This fibrillation isn’t caused by having “too much to do” or “not enough resources” or “changing business climate.” It’s caused by bad habits and misconceptions.
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