Coherence and Dispersion in Teams (0)
3/08/10 •
Exercise at ScrumGathering 2010: how simple internal models (”rules”) can have very different effects on team behavior.
In the first situation, each person has to use their “best friend” to protect themselves from their own “worst enemy.” (In this case, you “protect” yourself by moving so that your “friend” is between you and your “enemy.”)
Notice [...]
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Drugging the Mother-in-Law (2)
4/06/09 •
Abby over at Haxr Chick cites Ken (Schwaber, co-inventor of Scrum) as comparing Scrum to a live-in mother-in-law who is constantly pointing out how you can improve. Great post, and I like it.
But the discussion in the comments is just one variant of the many similar conversations I’ve heard about Scrum. It goes something like [...]
Wordpress Prologue for Virtual Team Rooms (4)
3/13/09 •
Automattic’s Prologue looks to be a nice solution to a team “war room” for distributed teams.
A frequently-underestimated benefit of the team “war room” is how it enables emergent knowledge. If I mumble to myself (as I frequently do) “now why is Apache redirecting us there…?” someone is likely to mumble back “checked the root [...]
Pandora’s Box (0)
3/06/09 •
Very much enjoying Pandora Radio while working. Good example of using stochastic input against a known attribute database to yield surprisingly useful results. Their library of my styles of music is a bit small for my tastes, but it’s a nice compliment to DI.fm
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