Monday, September 28, 2015

An Agile Balance

I wrote a couple of posts back about my ScrumMaster training that I would wrote more about how I would apply this to my job. This is the second such post.

This one is about the need to balance the discipline of what you are doing correctly with the ability to adapt, learn and change. If one is not careful, you might "discipline" as a static thing. In reality, while you are developing and practicing your discipline(s), you are at same time (or you should also be) learning and adapting. When viewed this way, discipline is a much more active endeavor. In his slideshare titled "The Tao of Agile", Fabio Armani states that "Both (Lean and Agile) offer a thinking tool set that allow us create new models and different approaches".

Reflecting on one of my recent projects, I had the thought, "Finally, the Product Owner is starting to 'get it'. It's a good thing I was so disciplined about this!" When I went back to review with them what they had "finally learned", I could also see that my own approach had adapted and evolved. I was also "getting it" and learning things about the project that were not initially clear to me. This is what the an Agile MindSet is all about -- being open to this "thinking tool set".  Can you  recognize when new models & new approaches either need to happen or in fact have already happened -- either for you customer or yourself?
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Friday, September 11, 2015

Some Thoughts on MinneDemo21

Last night I attended MinneDemo21.     It was the 1st time I attended after several attempts.   I will be attending again, shame on me for not getting there earlier.  Several general reactions:
  1. There *is* cool stuff happening in my local community
  2. There are lots of energized, passionate individuals working on that cool stuff
  3. There are few (need to be more) "deep pockets" trying to encourage, nurture, and fund this so more cool stuff will be created locally.
  4. Shame on me for not being a little fish in this pond or doing more to connect deep pockets with the community.
In the spirit of doing my "little fish" thing to nurture and encourage, here are links to the companies that presented along with my twitter stream that captured my reaction in realtime.

The Presenters:

Want more?  Here are videos of each presentation posted to TECHdotMN










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