I was born legally blind to a family of 6 children in 1979, in South Bend, Indiana, USA. As a child, I would touch my nose to the paper to learn to read and practice writing, and one of my first written sentences stated in...
Read MoreScrum firing template: How to announce firing a team member in a an environment that values openness, courage, commitment, focus, and respect: Template: Yesterday, for <reasons>, <specific names> decided to let <name> go. <Their reaction>. <Our reaction to their reaction>. They are outside the company now, there...
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Read Time: < 2 min We'd like to talk about some of the things that have helped WIKISPEED become an adaptable, highly distributed automotive manufacturer. There's so much material to cover that we will need to make a series of posts to cover it all. So...
Read MoreWe are often asked about how best to Scrum sales groups and teams. First, is it worth training the sales staff in Scrum? We've seen sales double rate of deal closure then double that again by running aggressive scrum. We've seen even better product to market match...
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This guide is an early release draft. Please add any suggestions for improvement in the comments. Purpose This guide serves to define Scrum in Hardware with specific technical practices and patterns to achieve rapid releases and short iterations in Hardware. Any company can utilize this guide and...
Read MoreAnnouncement version .1b (Expect something more beautiful and arranged in the future, but here is the critical info) WELCOME TO WIKISPEED EXPO 2017! Where: Seattle, WA, USA. Likely Pacific Raceways racetrack in the AM then WIKISPEED's Lynnwood, WA, USA shop in the evening. Pacific Raceways (not yet confirmed):...
Read MoreThis blog post is an invite for open discussion. If you have any insight or opinions about the content included in this post, please feel free to comment. We appreciate all feedback and welcome all input. Here begins Rev 0 AKA the rough draft of my...
Read MoreThis blog post summarizes the key points which came up in a conversation between Joe Justice and Chris Wallace discussing some challenges Chris is having with consistently and accurately estimating points for user stories in the WikiSpeed Burleson, TX, USA shop. While explaining his current experience with story...
Read MoreThis post is in addition to core Scrum, and is my opinion on how to help boot up Scrum in a company as an Agile business process trainer, consultant, and coach: Any meeting which has the primary purpose of communicating information out may be responsibly replaced...
Read MoreAccording to Forbes list of the top US IPO's of all time (all in the last 25 years), we have a list of the top creators of new wealth on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Each of these companies relies on Scrum for fast creation of new...
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