The original idea for the agile drill sergeant was born after a couple of pints and a difficult day. An approximation to this was one of the first test sketches that I drew to see if it was more than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, for a long, long time, I didn’t have a very high opinion of managers. Mostly because my expectation was that they would lead, whereas in reality they seemed to spend most of their time administrating! This bothered me, because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I when I started these comic strips, I also joined Twitter. It seemed like a good way to get the strip out there. Which is was – even if the number of followers I have won’t break the internet.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bit off more than I can chew with this one. In scrum terms, it was a 20 point story that I should have split up before starting the sprint. In Kanban terms, the card didn’t move much on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, that is supposed to be the penny game in panel 3 😉 The original comic had “Our customers don’t even know we’re agile!” in the last panel. What I’d meant to convey was that I’ve seen too many agile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Should have called this “Projects in Progress limits”. Seeing as this is an “agile” comic, I might just do that 😉 The original idea was that the only agile aspect of the set-up is the way the team has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen teams get way too caught up in the mechanics of a methodology or framework, to the point of forgetting why it was introduced in the first place. You’ve got to deliver – otherwise the rest becomes academic. One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those unfamiliar with another meaning of the word tool: “offensive: an insulting word for a person who you dislike very much or who behaves very stupidly”. I wonder if that’s what the authors of the agile manifesto had in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The research for this was not pleasant to watch. I’m considering a “I’m a celebrity coach, get me out of here” strip!
Kanban is great – I coach it a lot. More than Scrum at the moment. But when I first started looking at Kanban, this was sort of my attitude towards it. There was prioritisation, limiting work, cadences, dailies, retros –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…