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Toronto Agile Conference 2016 has happened in November. It was a great selection of Agilists and Agile enthusiasts. It was jam packed with great stuff to learn. I have attended three sessions about leadership, project management in Spotify and Leadership again and one keynote about the Host Leadership. The followings are my notes from the…
One of the practices of Agile Teams, that you might have heard of and is very popular, is writing “user stories”. A very important part of the User Story is the absence of the HOW. A good user story is one with no HOW. For the Business Analysts (BAs) audience, user stories will resemble Business Requirement…
I attended “Scaled Agile-Leading SAFe” course instructed by Jerry Doucett offered by Berteig in October 2016. I received “SAFe Agilist” designation from Scaled Agile as a result of successfully completing the course, its requirements and taking the test. I passed the test on my first attempt. You can find more details about this course at…
You are going to facilitate a session. The session has a large number of people attending. You are not confident with your facilitation skills for large meetings. You are not sure how to ask them to come to an agreement on the next steps, what to work on, what, as a team, they need to…
I had the opportunity to learn more about SAFe by attending a Leading SAFe course. To be honest, I didn’t have a positive overview of SAFe and its implementation (despite the fact that I had a blog post about it some times ago). After learning more about SAFe, my perspective has changed and I want to…
It happened on a Saturday morning at 8:30, in Financial district of Toronto on the first day of October. It was nice to see new faces and the old mates. It was a rejuvenation of the old habits and learning new techniques on coaching. At the core, as always, it lived the same great spirit of…
Writing a user story is easy. However, a great user story is hard to come by. It is an art to have one! Introducing the values and specifications of a great user story to teams and individuals, I put together a session called “Better User Stories”. I am sharing the presentation I used. I divided the…
I began learning about Agile when I was a developer. I was looking to find better ways of collaboration with the business and my team members. There was a point in time that I figured out I can’t deliver great code on my own; I need to help others to do great things from coding…
I was so touched by the LeSS framework that I had to implement it. The perfect opportunity presented itself, a big team (or shall I say a group of teams) that were working toward the same product. I’m sharing with you a presentation I prepared to move a team from a ScrumFall into more of a…
I was shouting “do not give out the solution”! The worst part was that I shouted right at the beginning of the meeting. I felt like I was derailing the meeting even before it even started and I wasn’t very happy about it. Before getting into what happened consequently to make me do this, let…