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7 min

3 things every Agile Coach should stand for

There are 3 things I consider paramount in the stance of an Agile Coach. To some they seem controversial, to others, a rather obvious choice

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Petula

4 min

A Mentoring Wheel

I designed this mentoring wheel as a guide for all mentoring relationships I establish now. It did not start in a big bang, I slowly constru

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COVID19 chronicles: knowledge workers in and Agile

Petula

4 min

COVID19 chronicles: knowledge workers in and Agile

As I list those, I have been working for months in this COVID-transformed environment, since March 2020.

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Petula

6 min

The 5 stages of a retrospective

I view a retrospective as a shared event of a team looking back or forward and investigating the deepest causes of success, failure and ever

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Petula

5 min

Retrospectives are not Postmortems

A postmortem, however, is not a retrospective. Here are some ways in which they greatly differ.

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Petula

8 min

Stay away from Vanity metrics

Commonly we use metrics to know how well we are performing. We define a target and we need to check against this target. It is this simple.

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Have you been using Liberating Structures?

Petula

6 min

Have you been using Liberating Structures?

Liberating Structures are surprisingly simple and powerful ways of interacting and with them we can unveil and deal with a lot of complexity

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The case for estimation, capacity planning and forecasting: these are not the same!

Petula

8 min

The case for estimation, capacity planning and forecasting: these are not the same!

When will that be ready? It is a question we all either asked or had to answer at least once, personally or professionally. And it makes sen

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Common mistakes when coaching a new Agile team

Petula

5 min

Common mistakes when coaching a new Agile team

We coaches, most of us start off with a lot of energy and expectations when approaching a new coaching relationship. New possibilities, new

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Petula

4 min

4 Common mistakes in Agile adoption

When an organization decides to adopt Agile it is tempting to select a framework and put it in place without reworking the company's mindset

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Technical debt and the Dice of Debt game

Petula

4 min

Technical debt and the Dice of Debt game

A fun and interesting way to engage parties into taking care of technical debt as early as possible. It is called the Dice of Debt game and

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Petula

5 min

A few words on story points

Story points do not talk about how long does it take for a feature to be completed. It does not translate in time. It is not the same for al

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Petula

6 min

On documentation

From the giant companies to the startups, if you have software development there is someone thinking about the documentation of it. Document

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Petula

5 min

When all you have is a hammer

Agile being a mindset does not dictate any process, procedures, tools, anything. Now, such mindsets do get concrete at some point when peopl

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Petula

2 min

What do you mean by Agile

Agile is a mindset. It does not mandate processes. It is not prescriptive. Neither are many of the tools that are commonly associated to it.

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