Posted by James King on July 27, 2011
With certification in agile becoming all the rage, I have decided to create a new international certification for trainers.
To become a Certified Strum Muckster you need to meet the strict sounding entry criteria for the International Strum Alliance and then abide by a number of rules that have been deemed by the International Strum Alliance (currently me) to be the one true and correct way to create and deliver training courses.
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Posted by James King on July 14, 2011
I was speaking to some experienced Agilistas about whether “Agile” had a good or bad reputation at the moment.
We spoke about agile maturity models, agile certification, real agile versus pretend agile and even whether there was a right way to do agile. We did not come to any agreement about whether certification and maturity models were good or bad but we did agree there was no one formula for success in agile.
This seemed logical at first but then I thought there really should be one formula we can apply. That way we can simply measure people on whether they are using it and correct their approach for them.
So after minutes of detailed research and experimentation I came up with the following formula.
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Posted by James King on May 25, 2011
Penny didn’t used to think that testing and management had much to do with each other, but she was about to learn that the most testing people of all were the managers.
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Posted by James King on May 10, 2011
If you have just joined our story, Penny was promoted to run the new third level support team and she has been told they have to be agile.
Penny decided to start their second day with a team meeting and she bought everyone a coffee as a welcome to the team kind of gesture. Penny wasn’t absolutely sure, but she thought managers were allowed to charge coffee to the company when they had important meetings.
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Posted by James King on May 5, 2011
Penny worked in the IT call centre. Her title was quite bland (she was a Second Level Support – Analyst Class 4), but she pictured herself as a young Sherlock Holmes.
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