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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	Takeways from Future of Agile Experience the humbleness and energy of so many people in one single place was a great experience. I would have liked to stay longer just do discuss and share experiences. Takeaways: As Agile practitioners, we need to continue to evolve ...	May 29, 2009
2	Future of Agile - update! The schedule is taking shape for May 27:th, we now announce two more sessions: Kanban vs. Scrum - Henrik Kniberg Roots of Lean and Agile - direct report from Toyota visit Also, meet the experts face2face in the afternoon open space...	Apr 8, 2009
3	Agile Myth or Magic - talk at the ISA Conference, Denmark In the 2:nd of April I held a talk for the danish public sector at the ISA conference in Aarhus called "Agile - Myth or Magic?" The slides are avaliable here It was interesting to meet many from the public sector and discuss their challen...	Apr 7, 2009
4	Are you manouvering a sports car or a truck? This is not you, right? Customer making changes at a faster rate then the development teams can implement A development team running short sprint lengths only to deliver crap to QA A development team promising features at a quicker rate th...	Dec 17, 2008
5	Agile for support and operations in 5 min Scrum does not fit well into the fast moving world of support. There is no Sprint committment, there is just continuous work. But support teams can go Agile. The solutions is spelled Kanban. I have coached two support teams adopting Kanban and attache...	Nov 3, 2008
6	My favourite top 5 Agile team rules Building something common out of high performing individuals is not always easy. Here are my favourite five Agile team rules: Best idea prevales! "No" - is allowed, if you can come up with something better Steady progress beats tripp...	Oct 29, 2008
7	How do support and operations get Agile? As part of development teams and as project managers, I have worked with a number of support departments. They face similar issues: "We can't promise project completion - we are interrupt driven"! I want coworkers to take a bigger re...	Oct 29, 2008
8	Roles in an Agile organisation Clear roles is important in setting expectations. Not the limit (people can indeed master several roles at the same time) but bringing clearity is a way of saying "being a [product owner] this is what I expect from you". There is a lot of st...	Sep 16, 2008
9	Agile game - Pass the pennies Excellent game for quick learning of lean principles. You can do it anywhere and anytime with 20 pennies, some mobile phones and a team of playful people.	Sep 8, 2008
10	Fixed priced contracts - flawed by design When talking about Scrum to business people I very often get the question "How do I deal with fixed priced contracts when doing Scrum?" It struck me today no one who ever asked me this, has come to the conclusion that doing fixed priced con...	Jun 16, 2008
11	Top 3 Tools your Scrum team can't live without Here are top three tools for any Scrum project 1. Google Spreadsheets Your backlog, anywhere & anytime. A perfect lean alternative to your Scrum board on the wall. Anywh...	May 26, 2008
12	Planning ahead in Scrum In Scrum it is often perceived that planning takes place on sprint planning day. Getting the required parties in the same place and do planning is a good way of making real time decisions. But getting people together is a dounting or impossible task an...	Mar 18, 2008
13	Dealing with technical debt Because of unclear definition of benefit of removing technical debt, PO and teams risk move into a standstill regarding activities to to remove it. This is counter productive, we should remove thresholds of quality improvement activities, not introduce...	Feb 28, 2008
14	Scrum in the large – demystify roadmaps and progress tracking As a Scrum team, we need to recognise that we are not alone in building business value for our software and provide visibility in where we are heading. By using a roadmap updated per sprint basis is an easy way of making everyone pull in the same direc...	Feb 12, 2008