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Exercises – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. Check-in in a Circle. August 22, 2012. When I kick off a class or workshop, I want participants to engage as soon as possible after entering the room. I do work through some practical bits first, but. An Exercise for Defining Done for Scrum Teams. July 22, 2010. In this post, I’m going to share an exercise you could try for helping a team start their journey towards a clear and shared definition of what it means to done. Meet me at Eurostar 2016.
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Managing as Helping – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. May 13, 2014. Are you a manager, or maybe an informal leader with implicit influence and responsibility? Have you considered how you think about your role? Have you considered thinking about yourself as a helper? How you see the role of management is going to be a major factor in deciding whether you end up managing in a way that’s helpful to people in your organization or not. However, I don’t think we have room for unhelpful people. ...The tas...
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Prioritizing Effectively as a Team – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. Prioritizing Effectively as a Team. June 16, 2014. My new article “Prioritizing Effectively as a Team” is up on AgileConnection.com. The article starts out like this:. You can read the full article on Agileconnection.com. I'm a software management consultant. I help other people succeed with software development. In my work, I help teams and organizations be more effective and ship software. View all posts by Tobias Fors →. You might also like.
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Copy-Paste Management – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. September 18, 2014. Developers sometimes engage in copy-paste development. If you’ve never written code, this is when a developer copies, pastes and possibly slightly modifies some existing code – instead of following the cleaner practice of reusing the code by (for example) turning it into a single function that can be called from multiple places. You should use Scrum. Text is short part of chapter 1 “No Purpose Beyond Scrum” in my ...I'm a sof...
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What Is an Advanced Scrum Master? – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. What Is an Advanced Scrum Master? May 10, 2013. Being a scrum master is more than just reminding a team to perform certain ceremonies, it’s about growing the best possible workplace. To begin with, let’s clarify this whole thing about the “scrum master”. It’s the name of a role. It’s a relatively new and pretty ridiculous name by intent, because a change was needed in how we lead development work. 8220;Tobias – I don’t understand how...I was a b...
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Check-in in a Circle – Tobias Fors
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Full stack management consultant. Scrum and Agile Training. Check-in in a Circle. August 22, 2012. When I kick off a class or workshop, I want participants to engage as soon as possible after entering the room. I do work through some practical bits first, but after that I quickly hand things over to participants. For a long time, I’ve been using an opening exercise I learned from Ken Schwaber. In it, I ask participants to sort themselves along a line in the room, according to different criteria. In one p...
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Context-Driven Performance Testing: Thoughts on testing that matter to some person, even if it is only Eric Proegler. Not in the face!
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Thoughts on testing that matter to some person, even if it is only Eric Proegler. Not in the face! November 19, 2015. This blog post relays the findings of a peer workshop on performance and reliability testing and monitoring. I will not provide the usual TL; DR summary this time – if you want this gold, you will have to sift it yourself. On 22-24 Oct, I attended and facilitated WOPR24, a LAWST-inspired workshop. WOPRs over the last 11 years. The attendees of WOPR24 were Ajay Davuluri. Each WOPR has a Th...
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Thoughts: Encouraging change when you are the only tester | punkmiktests
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Thoughts: Encouraging change when you are the only tester. May 15, 2016. Sometimes things come from small conversation snippets. Some of you may know that I did a t estinginthepub episode. Not too long ago. In there I talk a lot about what is awesome in my job now, like being valued as a team member, being invited to kick off meetings (these help us talk about what we are building and why) teams ask me for mind mapping the testing areas. Encouraging change when you are the only tester. So I mentioned tha...
