Daily Stand-up Dysfunctions

Agile Ottawa this week had a great group come out to talk about the Daily Stand-up. The discussion covered structure/format, purpose, and surprisingly a great deal on the dysfunctions. Or, maybe it is not so surprising! In my time coaching and working with teams, what sounds like the simplest of meetings often has the most [...]

May 11 Meetup: Speaker is Craig Larman

We are very excited to announce that Craig Larman, author, speaker and trainer will be our guest speaker for the Agile Ottawa May 11th meet-up. The topic is Scaling Lean & Agile Droduct Development for very large, multi-site, and/or offshore development (book). Sign up is requested so that we have an idea of the audience [...]

Reminder: Agile Ottawa meetup April 13

Topic of discussion is the Daily Stand-up. See posts below for more details. NEW ALERT: As of 12:30pm Tuesday April 13, we are back to our normal room on the second floor. ALERT: Same location (Adobe on Preston) DIFFERENT room — we will be on the 11th floor this time.

REPOST: Ottawa Scrum Users Group: User Stories, Part II

When: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:30 PM Where: QNX 175 Terence Mathews Cresent Ottawa, ON K2M 1W8 Hello, There are so many layers to the important topic of User Stories! Come join and share with other companies around Ottawa as we continue our User Story discussion – this time focusing on: * Estimating * Maximum [...]