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Agile Roots 2015 - Working Together. Thanks to all who joined us in SLC, UT on June 18-20. See you in June 2016!

Salt Lake City, UT
Joined March 2009
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After agile roots, Amitai Schlair and I sat down with Ron Quartel for ?? 3 hours ?? talking about XP, Technical Deb…lnkd.in/eXcTMSR
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Hear my #AgileRoots stories of "Shoestring Agility in a Velcro Organization", plus reflections on the experience: schmonz.com/2015/06/24/agile… – at Dearborn Heights, MI
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Session Artifacts (slides, repos, etc) can be found at agileroots.com/slides-2015/ Will be updated as more come in! #agileroots
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Replying to @agilecoach
@agilecoach @AdamYuret Here's the book I was talking about at #AgileRoots (The good one, anyway) amazon.com/Just-Listen-Disco… :-)
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My #1 takeaway from AgileRoots are feedback loops, having them in place & at the right frequency.
No slides just code @agileroots github.com/AgileInstitute?ta… labs-.*/TestedTrek Run tests frequently, refactor relentlessly! #AgileRoots #scrum
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Slides from Agile Roots 2015 are now available at agileroots.com/slides-2015/ Will update as we get more!
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2015 isn't quite in the books yet but we have Agile Roots 2016 dates! Save the dates June 16-17, 2016. #agileroots
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Thanks you @agileroots for organizing a great local SLC conference. Great work and congatulations. #agileroots
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"If WIP is the enemy of flow, Slack is the friend of flow." @AdamYuret #agileroots
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Leader buys team celebratory pizza. That takes ownership of how the team might want to celebrate. Ask the team! @pollyannapixton #agileroots
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Flow -> value. WIP impedes flow flow. Slack improves flow. Types of slack = variability buffer, learning, capability balancing. #AgileRoots
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"Suspicion is a permanent condition" -@mwbuckingham, quoted by @pollyannapixton - leaders, _you_ need to trust first. #agileroots
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Social events during the project are more interesting than social events at the end;more information is passed. @pollyannapixton #agileroots
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Hilariously spot-on analogies for agility #AgileRoots xitter.cf/Aaron_Griffith/status/… – at South Jordan, UT
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Not all work is virtuous. “Failure Demand” is still work, but only exists because we didn’t do the valuable work properly. #AgileRoots
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#AgileRoots @AdamYuret on cargo cult example of how to make #Agile suck: “correlation = causation” cognitive fallacy ow.ly/i/boPUo
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People are afraid of losing their identity, their mastery, their individualism. Leaders: drive out fear. @pollyannapixton #agileroots