Have you ever been offended when someone has walked out of your talk, workshop or meeting? You’ve put in many hours of your own time and effort to arrange it, and in the case of a public speaking talk, you might have even suffered from a bit of stage fright. Surely …
It’s our tendency, as technical people working within a highly technical domain, to overcomplicate matters somewhat.
Take, for example, our software delivery processes.
When developing something solo, or with a team of two or three people, the process overhead tends to …
I’m a fan of lists. I make lists for lots of things - groceries, housework, packing for a holiday, moving home and so on. It’s not really that much of a surprise that I’m a list-lover when you consider that a backlog is essentially a list of to-do items. So …
If you’ll direct your eyes upwards, to the URL bar above, you’ll notice that you’re now browsing agilewithedele.com instead of edelegormley.xyz.
This subtle, seemingly unimportant change is the prelude to a bunch of sweeping changes that will find their way …
I’ve met many people over the years who, once they learn I’m an Agile Coach, begin to tell me all of their bad experiences with Agile. Here’s a few (real) quotes from such conversations:
Agile is, and never will be, a silver bullet for your …
Most people have heard of Scrum and Kanban, but what about the other Agile approaches?
When I was first learning about the various approaches to software development, Scrum wasn’t as prevalent as it is today—it was just one approach in a crowd of many. So what’s …
I’ve been present at literally thousands of stand-up ceremonies, from co-located to completely remote to somewhere in-between. I still remember the very first one I attended. I walked into the room and grabbed a seat, that’s the way every meeting had gone in my …
“Value” might be an overused word amongst us Agile folks, but it’s a very important one. It helps to keep us focussed on the goal of particular exercises or rituals. Over the years I’ve observed people going through the motions for the sake of …
I recently attended the awesome Agile Lean Ireland 2018 conference in Croke Park Dublin. Three of the talks in particular really stuck with me - the opening keynote and two in the afternoon, and I’d like to share my takeaways from them.
When I saw who was delivering …
When I first attended a meetup and heard the facilitator say “we’re going to open the café” I assumed they meant they were going to start serving the drinks provided for the event. Needless to say I felt a little silly once I realised what it was. Of …
The start of the year, ahhh, the perfect time to have a fresh start and forget all the pain of the year that went before. Or as I see it, the ideal time to run a retrospective to take the learnings from the past and use this to create goals for the year ahead.
I like to …
When you play a game, you tend to come up with ways you can get a better score the next time you play, or how you might win. I never quite considered the correlation from board games to retrospectives until I witnessed it for myself.
Over lunch one day, I observed a team …