Agile Coaching in the Asia Pacific
Thoughts and ideas of Mike Mallete - Agile Coach, Trainer, and Software Developer
Demystifying Large-Scale Scrum
Large-Scale Scrum, aka LeSS, falls on the simpler-side of the scaling techniques spectrum. The basic framework consists of 9 events, 3 roles, 3 artefacts. Minimal elements are added once you go beyond 8 teams. It is this simplicity that makes the approach very effective, and yet also polarising. Let’s go...
Line Managers in an Agile World
Scrum and other agile methodologies prescribe specific roles. The success of these frameworks are dependent on how close they are performed to its intention and how well the person/people in that role executes. However these roles do not exist in a vacuum and there are more roles surrounding these within...
Coderetreat in Manila
Our colleague Joseph Yao told us of his observation. Arguably, most of Asia lack the culture of software craftsmanship. Unlike what he had observed in North America and Europe, of which had very frequent meet ups, conferences, and community activities revolving around this, there was very little to none here....
Making Distributed Teams Suck Less
Three years ago in a conference in Hong Kong, myself and my buddy, Emerson Mills, were invited as speakers. His talk was entitled “How to Suck Less with Distributed Team,” which I obviously stole as title for this piece. What stuck was his observation of how the Open Source Software...
In Defense of the Sprint
I’ve been told more than once how the Sprint is a bad idea. And that more continuous cycles like that introduced by Kanban is better. I’ve even attended a workshop where the trainer totally talked smacked about the whole concept of time-boxing and iterations. The main problem is that there...