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Covering the two words that dominate the Information Technology (IT) landscape - STEM/STEAM and AGILE. If you are a student, an up-and-coming, a professional or future practitioner: STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art/Design and Math) is the global language and AGILE is the implementation framework used for radical change by innovators, inventors, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and change agents! Take Ten to Fifteen Minutes every day to Better Understand the Digital Language that will ...
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It's time to grow up, if you've been doing agile the same way since you started - That's a problem. Using a 5 tier model to measure your continuous improvement: Level 1 - Ad hoc Agile (Individual/Team) Level 2 - Doing Agile (Team) (Mindset Shift) Level 3 - Being Agile (Team/Program) (Basic Metrics/Empowered Teams) Level 4 - Think Agile, High Perfor…
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Often time people want the Agile Coach to "pick a side", who's right or who's wrong: Should all agile teams be smaller than 9 people? Do we have to have daily stand-ups every day? Do we have to have a daily stand-up on the day we have retrospectives? Can we combine the demo and the retrospective? Can we extend our sprint a week if we want? Can we c…
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After listening to this podcast, try to take an honest look at your current environment and company culture and see if you have created Groups of Individual Contributors that work together (and may get along GREAT but don't actually collaborate) or have you created a TEAMs of people. Listen and make a list of questions related to your (1) Goals (2)…
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I will be the first to admit Agile Ceremonies can get stale and mundane. It's important that you don't go the 'lazy' route and just cancel these ceremonies. Take the time and effort to energize them. You get out of it, what you put into it. Put a little thought, planning, creativity, and inspiration into these ceremonies. Make it a priority and be …
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I'm 100% serious. The hiring of Agile Coaches is on the rise but why spend the money and bring people from outside your organization when you can have someone inside your organization take an Agile class or two? Even though I'm a very seasoned Agile Coach, I'm not going to tell you that it's not impossible but I do want to give you a little heads-u…
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Those who have been practicing Agile / Scrum before and during the COVID pandemic have had to face a real dilemma of whether you can properly execute Agile especially Scrum with a remote team. If you can't do it properly then the next question is should you abandon scrum altogether? Is a half attempt at Scrum done remotely better than no attempt? W…
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Gherkin approach is a great way to test acceptance criteria and a pre-cursor to the acceptance test and automated test scripts but not a replacement for acceptance criteria. About the host: Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline007/By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk
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The 4 Ceremonies You Always hear about - Daily Stand Up - Sprint Review - Sprint Planning - Sprint Retrospective Are reinforced by 2 Additional Ceremonies - Backlog Refinement (Taking Raw stories and doing the prework and research to get them ready for your planning ceremony) - Scrum of Scrum (Cross Team Coordination of Shared Services) Seeing thes…
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Agile = Agility + Flexibility + Predictability. Our world is forcing every industry, every business (small and large) to be more agile, flexible and to be able to pivot often. In some cases, business and teams have to look at their capacity on a day-by-day basis to determine their goals for the day. In the IT industry, we've seen the rate of change…
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Using Business Value Points (BVP) for User Stories to help define scope, help prioritize and make planning smoother. BVP can use the same framework as Story Points (i.e. a modified Fibonacci Sequence). For example: BVP 13 - Will provide a definite and significant tangible ROI (increase revenue, transactions, generate repeat customers) or is a Compl…
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Hear about my journey for the last 30 years and my quest to understand the best way to healthy, sustainable approaches to software development. And how I help empower each of my clients to create a relentless, continuous improvement strategy. Also connect with me on Linkedin. I would love to know if you've listened to one of our episodes and if it'…
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The team, along with the product owner and scrum master, needs to make sure you are keeping all forms of debt at bay. Technical debt is only one type of debt that you can accumulate as a part of product, service or software delivery but there are others that you need to keep your eye on including: documentation debt, compliance debt, code debt, inf…
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Technical Debt is the accumulation of what is known as enabler and technical stories. It's when you've built the features and not the backend processing, business rules, data and non-functional mechanics that make a story or MVP potentially shippable. Technical debt can be intentional but you can jeopardize your agility when you unintentionally del…
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A technical story is one where the main stakeholders are the engineering/infrastructure team/leadership. The end-user benefits only indirectly from such a story. Technical stories often are non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements include security, performance, maintainability, usability, refactoring, infrastructure,accessibility, c…
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This episode explores Acceptance Criteria which are not exactly the same as traditional requirements, but the more you know about traditional requirements the more you can use some of the same techniques for reconciling what's missing. Traditional Requirements are lengthy word documents vs Agile Requirements which are informal conversations and whi…
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Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #24, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing …
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Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #23, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing …
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Topics Covered: The right and wrong way to split stories in order to make the story small and to build the solution in increments; How you split stories to take the team in a direction that creates silos and scrum waterfalls (also known as scrumfalls). The size of your stories is the root cause of endless carryover. Carryover undermines the credibi…
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The fist of five is a tool to Build ConsensusCan be used for all Agile CeremoniesMake Introverted Team Members ComfortableGives everyone equal voting rightsOpens up dialogueCan determine if a conversation needs to be brought to a voteFist of Five Rules 5 Fingers - Completely Agree/ I will Champion Things4 Fingers - Agree (Not Comfortable Championin…
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The science of decsion making. How to become a better Decision Maker - Part 1 The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving World by Michael Nicholas Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk
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Train your brain to make better decisions - Cross Lateral Brain Exercises It's been proven that when you work on cross training your mind, you'll find that you'll make even better decisions. What are some left brain and right activities you do on a weekly basis? Share your experience so we can share it with other podcast listeners. (reading exercis…
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Which is Better for Your Brain Coffee or Tea? eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Messag…
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eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message (technologyexpresso@gmail.com) and share if …
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Learning Styles. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message (technologyexpresso@gmail.com) and share if you are right brain and left brain domin…
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Worst Foods For Your Brain. Foods to avoid - guess which one is the worst? microwave popcorn sugar number alcohol fast food fried foods ice cream soy sauce tuna copper and iron processed foods Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passion…
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Good foods to STEMulate your brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message (technologyexpresso@gmail.com) and share if you are right brain a…
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Exercises to determine if you are right brain or left brain According to the Alzheimer’s Association, keeping your brain active may help increase vitality and possibly generate new brain cells. They also suggest that a lack of mental stimulation may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Here are a few tips to keep your brain stimulat…
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2018 turning up - we are turning STEM talk into STEAM in Action. The A now stands for art plus action - how do you express your right and left brain? 2018 Program Preview - the Artification of STEM - think like an artist to create thought leaders, innovators and inventors! Art in Action - The Art of Agile Leadership - Recommended Reading MUST READ …
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