Last Friday, I had a chance to facilitate the retrospective of the Scrum team I am part of. We have done retrospectives in the past, yes, but I would say that our understanding and practice is fairly shallow, and will need more time and reflection in order to mature. This retrospective aimed to start doing [...]
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Retrospectives
October 21, 2009
Strike Force sprint planning
October 12, 2009
Today, I had the opportunity to facilitate the sprint planning of our newest team in Orange & Bronze, which we affectionately call “Strike Force”. We recognized that we can be more responsive in dealing with new opportunities that come our way, as well as more deliberate in supporting our long term commitments and initiatives, to [...]
Certified Scrum Master
October 3, 2009
About a month ago, I took the Certified Scrum Master course with Bas Vodde as our trainer. I’ve wanted to take a CSM course when I started reading more on Agile and Scrum but costs were the deal breaker: there were no local courses being offered, and the ones nearest the Philippines were beyond reach [...]
The list
August 10, 2009
Some time ago, a friend touched based by asking how I was doing. Almost by reflect I responded with the “I’m doing good, how about you?”. In reality, however, something was up, but it was something that I couldn’t really explain as I have not given enough thought about it. After a couple of exchanges [...]
