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My Blog as Moved

Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:12 AM by mitchl
I have moved my blog and am in the process of porting over the content on MSDN blogs. See my new space on the web at http://www.mitchlacey.com or http://www.adoptagile.com -Mitch Read More...
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Scrum and Agile Planning: Ideal Days Do Not Exist

Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:51 PM by mitchl
I was watching the Chiefs - Seahawks football game last Sunday when it hit me. Ideal days do not exist. Damon Huard was starting for the injured Trent Green for the Kansas City Chiefs. Huard was playing with an injured hamstring and sat out most of practice Read More...
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Breaking the Rules of Agile - Working Overtime

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:56 AM by mitchl
One of the things I love about XP (this is a principle of Scrum also) is the concept of Sustainable Pace. Ron Jeffries aptly documents this on his site in the following text: Extreme Programming teams are in it for the long term. They work hard, and at Read More...
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Disciplines Working Together - What a Novel Concept

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 10:03 PM by mitchl
I was reading Mini Microsoft for the second time tonight (I've really never read it) when I came across a post titled Dev vs Test vs PM . This snipped from the post got me thinking - why would I want to work together with someone when I get rewarded for Read More...
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Scrummerfall - Mixing Scrum with Traditional Software Development Methods

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 6:22 PM by mitchl
Friend and colleague Brad Wilson defines Scrummerfall as Scrummerfall . n. The practice of combining Scrum and Waterfall so as to ensure failure at a much faster rate than you had with Waterfall alone. Which gets us to our story. I was having an email Read More...
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Organizational Resistance to Change and How to Get Around It

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 9:38 PM by mitchl
There was a post on the Scrum yahoogroup if folks encountered resistance from the company and how they got around it. This is a common theme - here is my experience from my first Agile project: Let me see if I can quote the developers that are now on Read More...
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Going Through Change - Finding the Sweet Spot

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 10:35 AM by mitchl
Change is difficult, stressful and rewarding when you are open to it. Personally, I love change, in moderation. When I coach teams, I ask them what they want to get out of the experience, and where they want to be in 6 months. A common response is "we Read More...
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