Failure

Failure

When I hear it said that we should celebrate our failures or that we should “fail fast”, I fear that some people may mistake the intent behind it. The aim is not to fail, but instead to learn from failures. What we should really say is “learn fast” and “celebrate our discoveries”. As a fan…

Is it safe?
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Is it safe?

One of the agile principles is that the team have a supportive environment; Modern Agile explicitly says “Make safety a prerequisite”. It’s essential that the team can say “no” when asked to take on extra work, for example, otherwise saying “yes” has no meaning. We expect the team to commit to a sprint plan but…

Does Mastery Matter?
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Does Mastery Matter?

Firstly I have to mention the inspiration for this post is a recent(ish) episode of The Agile Pubcast where Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard (both in the UK) were joined by Chris Williams from Canada, so this one matched many of my interests 🙂 Chris mentioned sporting events to see in Toronto but he missed…

Coaching backlog
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Coaching backlog

One challenge as a coach is deciding where to spend your time – do I help team A or team B or split my time between them? If I had the capacity to give both the attention they need then it’s not a problem but of course there’s never enough time to go round. Like…