A Thought on Starting and Growing Your Practice

October 19th, 2012

There are many known models for growth.

  • Apprentice/Journey/Master
  • Su/Ha/Ri

All essentially say this:

  1. Imitate to understand
  2. Experiment deliberately to find improvement
  3. Someday, maybe, perhaps (based on many variables) : Change the game

Kent Beck said it like this, about XP.

  1. Do everything as written.
  2. After having done that, experiment with variations in the rules.
  3. Eventually, don’t care if you are doing XP or not.

 

Remember that the goal of the daily team meeting is to create a plan for the next 24 hours. For the daily planning meeting we call “standup”:

  1.  Use the 3 questions
  2. Focus on the Feature
  3. Focus on the Goal

  • http://twitter.com/jsonmez John Sonmez

    Excellent!

  • Andrew Rusling

    This is a great point you make and it reading this blog has helped me to understand how I will help our Scrum of Scrums improve. Thanks.

    For teams moving to ’2. Focus on the Feature’, I have found that User Story Centric Stand ups work really well. I have a brief blog on them http://www.journey-to-better.com/2012/03/user-story-centric-stand-ups.html