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Scrum Mastery - Skills for Developing High Performance Teams

December 13, 2016 webinars, News and Events

The Agile Project Manager - Please Sir, May I Have Some Help?

A seasoned director of software development was championing agile adoption at her company; it was a moderately scaled initiative, including around 100 developers, testers, project managers, BAs and the functional management surrounding them. They received some initial agile training, seemed to be energized and aligned with the methods, and were set loose to start sprinting. Six months later things were in shambles. Managers were micromanaging the sprints and adjusting team estimates...

November 18, 2016 Agile, agile leadership roles, agile project manager, agile team roles, failure in agile

Free Webinar: Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams

Is your team hitting road blocks in the process of a new agile adoption and/or having trouble delivering top quality releases on time? Is your agile team not working to its full potential? If you answered yes to any of these questions, get insight on these challenges with Zenergy's free webinar, Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams.

October 31, 2016 webinars, News and Events

The Agile Project Manager - Fail NOW as a Strategy

Coaching to Avoid Failure Agile Exposure The Notion of ‘Failing Forward’ Wrapping Up – But, I’m a Bit Strange… I was at a conference not long ago speaking on and sharing variousagiletopics. After one of my presentations, a young man stopped me to ask a few questions. We struck up a nice conversation that eventually discussing sprint dynamics within Scrum teams. I mentioned that I usually coach teams toward declaring their sprints a success…or (pause for meaningful effect) …a failure.

October 24, 2016 Agile, agile leadership roles, agile project manager, agile team roles, product owner roles

Zenergy to Appear at Agile Dev, Better Software, DevOps East 2016

Planning on attending Agile Dev East 2016 Conference? If you’re interested in starting your agile journey or looking to solidify your agile development, metrics, testing, and/or leadership practices, Agile Dev East is the perfect conference for you.

October 17, 2016 News and Events

Refactoring and Technical Debt: It's Not a Choice, It's a Responsibility

A few years back I was coaching a large group of Scrum teams at an email marketing SaaS firm. The group had been practicing Scrum for over four years and had become a high-performance agile organization. Most of my efforts focused on fine-tuning from the perspective of an external set of eyes. Working with this organization and its development teams was a privilege. Refactoring vs. Technical Debt Broad vs. Narrow Consideration Stop Digging the Hole and Deeper Fill in the Hole Broadly...

October 5, 2016 agile methodology, agile technique, Agile

Zenergy Speaking at AWS Learning Day Event in Indianapolis

Join Zenergy's Director of Client Delivery, Chris Lawson, for a DevOps Deep Dive session at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Learning Day in Indianapolis on October 26, 2016.

September 15, 2016 News and Events

Hardening Sprints: The Good, Bad, and Downright Ugly

Moving On… Hardening Sprint Stabilization Sprint Release Readiness Sprint Spring Cleaning Sprint Why the Dreaded ‘Hardening Sprint’? Get Out of Jail Free Card Conceptual Support Hardening Contexts Distributed and At-Scale Agile Customer Receptivity Test Automation Coverage Skewed Sprint Consolidation Defect Rework Deployment Readiness and Training Regulation, Governance, and the Art of Trivialized Agile Testing Wrapping Up For Further Reading I remember the threatening email as if I...

September 12, 2016 agile methodology, agile technique, Agile, hardening sprints

David Dang to Speak at AWS Learning Day Events

Join VP of Automation Solutions, David Dang, for a DevOps Deep Dive session at the upcoming Amazon Web Services (AWS) Learning Day.

August 30, 2016 News and Events

Distributed Agile Teams: The Art of the START

For some,integrating testers into agileteams stands to be the real challenge, especially when working with distributed agile teams. I’ve sharedagilemethods for over ten years at conferences and workshops. One of the top three questions I always receive from attendees is: Does Agile work with distributed teams? A Tale of Two Distributed Teams The “Bad to Ugly” Establish the Team(s) Train the Team Together Establish Norms, Standards, and a Character Sprint Review Together! Wrapping Up

August 26, 2016 Agile, distributed agile teams, agile team roles

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