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Recently, a friend pointed me to yet another long online conversation debating whether remote work is good or bad. Who was right? Both sides actually. However, they were arguing over …
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I know it’s been quiet on this blog, but much has happened behind the scenes. In fact, there has been a countdown happening as I prepare for Agile2018 next week. 8 chapters are now available …
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Taking a break from book writing today, I saw on Twitter there was a conversation in the open space at Scrum Gathering Minneapolis (#SGMSP18). For those of us who have been working remotely …
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Many people ask me what is the best tool for distributed agile teams. It’s the wrong question. What many people miss is that a distributed agile team needs a common workspace and a collection of …
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Monday is the official start of the Agile2017 conference. It can be overwhelming to be with over 2500 people, choose from over 200 topics in over 20 tracks. It can be over-stimulating and, …
UPDATE (Aug 2020) - I finally took down remotelyagile.info as the entire world was remote. Near impossible to track it all. If you attended my talk at LeanAgileUS.com, I likely mentioned many …
I was asked to do a 5 minute Spark Tale for the first Qiqocon user conference on August 5, 2021. I decided to do something a little bit different and wrote a poem in Dr. Seuss style to fit the conference theme of “Stretch What’s Possible”. Below is the YouTube of the 5 minute Spark […]
Many organizations continue to move forward with plans to bring people back into the office. Sometimes, this “move forward” feels more like one step forward and three steps back. This stumble forward cannot be completely the fault of the organization. Not many of them planned to go remote. Also, the guidance available provides confusing signals […]
Not everyone wants to return to the office and some organizations agree.