AGILE TRAINING ~ CONSULTANCY ~ COACHING

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This is a brilliant little game I love playing with both new and experienced agile teams... Unfortunately I can't claim any credit as I never came up with it! Preferably it's best to play with a team who are already doing some level of agile practices and are already doing the daily stand-up. Ask for one volunteer in the group to play Scrum master and give the rest of them a card with one of the following 'secret' objectives on, It's important that team members don't discuss their hidden role before hand :- Arrive late. Hidden impediment: Mention an impediment/blocker but don’t be obvious about it Noisy chicken: start by saying, "I’m only an observer" and then report on things the group doesn’t care about. Silent chicken: as an observer, just say "pass" or "I’m just observing" when it’s your turn Ask a clarifying question on somebody else’s turn. Ramble on until you’re asked to move on. Try to side

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Hi Guys, Yes - still defiantly sticking with the 'Hi guys' introduction! Recently I've been attempting to write a number of small articles to demystify some of the populate buzz words used in IT Today. A sort of quick guide to surviving in IT. I've recently applied to get involved with the LinkedIn self publishing platform and over time hope to make a number of these articles available via LinkedIn... but until then feel free to connect with me on inkedIn  uk.linkedin.com/in/christianleemiles/ Back to the point! In my opinion DevOps sounds like some secret undercover military operations unit! In reality the truth as ever is much more boring. If your already familiar with an agile methodology you may be aware of DevOps or perhaps some of the questions that start to arise as you progress through your Agile adventure.... With more and more developers doing 'Agile' in some form or other,  some of them began to ponder what do customers really want? busine

If your into agile project management you've probably heard of SAFe - The Scaled Agile Framework. I'm hearing about more and more companies that are applying the principles so thought it probably about time that I wrote a  brief dummies guide to it :-) The dictionary definition reads... The Scaled Agile Framework SAFe™ is an interactive knowledge base system for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Does that clear it up? One of the problems I've often seen is how do you scale up agile? Scrum and Kanban works great in teams of up to about 8 people (give or take) or the two pizza rule... If you can't feel the team with 2 pizza's it's too big.... Or you have a greedy team. However many large organisations may have teams of 50+ developers working on products and this is where the SAFe framework really comes in. Put simply SAFe is a framework template designed to allow for agile practices to be scaled and importantly it's a framework that