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Agile Journal – Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

Amr Elssamadisy, editor in chief of the Agile Journal, is a friend and colleague. I love his response in the November 2008 issue to the frequent question “How do I get person X to do action Y.” Read it here: Agile Journal – Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

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Agile Over the Sea

Strange Attractors I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she’d read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I’d presented at the 2004-2007 [...]

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Responsibility Redefined Program Manager sought

Are you a senior project, program, or product manager looking for your next challenge to perfect the art of orchestrating reliable delivery of value to the customer? I’m helping a colleague search for a great hire in the Silicon Valley/East Bay, CA area. I believe the perfect candidate will be a continuous learner with a [...]

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Team Building – How to Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying

Team Building Shmeme-building… The good folks at Agile University yesterday published my team building commentary titled: How to Frustrate, Thwart, and Ultimately Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying. Click the AU link above to read it, or read it below, after the video window. Or, just watch this video… [youtube][/youtube] [...]

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InfoQ: Touchy Feely (ugh) Impediments to Agile Adoption

Responsibility Redefined received a favorable mention last week at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto (even though I wasn’t there for the first time in years) and was written up in InfoQ: InfoQ: Touchy Feely Impediments to Agile Adoption I missed this year’s Agile conference due to other priorities and commitments. Maybe next year. I’m [...]

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