Since 2011 I’ve written over 100 articles of varying value. Rather than force you to pick through them all, here’s a selection of the most popular…
- Cracking Big Rocks – An introduction to “big rocks” coaching cards
- Convergence & Divergence – On managing organizational tides vs standardization
- Rapunzel’s Ivory Tower – A sample of life as an agile coach in a large multinational adopting agile for the first time
- 5S Your Scrum board – A pair of articles on scrum / kanban board refactoring
- Why you should stick to using whiteboards & stickies – On the benefits of a physical board for process evolution
- Swimlane Sizing – complete & fast backlog estimation – Estimation without the pain
- On Story points and distributions – Why story points work
- Telling Vs Coaching – An introduction to Situational Leadership
- A Year of whiteboard evolution – A year in the life of a team process
- Have We Started Yet? – More whiteboard hacks
- The Point of maximum learning – Are you out of your comfort zone?
- The Joy of Peer Reviews – Some technical discipline
- Patterns for collective code ownership – Improving how teams maintain code
- Project Envisioning with Six Stickies – A lightweight approach to kicking off your next project
- 200 Questions to bridge the product owner divide – Agile still needs analysis
- 10 Minute Test Plans – Using a pencil & paper to plan testing (regardless of your role)
And finally, if you want to know who I really am, here’s a few bonus articles that aren’t available on this site.
- “Slack” – managing slack time on teams
- Organizational Restructuring – an Insider View
- Red Gate’s Personal Development Manifesto
- 12 Tips for personal development