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A collection of 37 posts

Forming a Community of Volunteers at the Global Scrum Gathering Orlando #SGFLA

It’s been a little over a week since the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando and our Agile Florida Slack community is still buzzing. The buzz is mostly from our volunteers! The April 2016 Global Scrum Gathering was the first time they leveraged volunteers to assist with the speakers and

Is Virtual Co-Working Possible?

Since the Distributed agile teams conference in Berlin (Nov 2015), I’ve been experimenting with a number of techniques to work virtually. One of my latest experiments with Lisette Sutherland and Pilar Orti is on virtual co-working. First, let’s discuss co-working. Co-working has exploded over the last decade as

Scrum Gathering Orlando - Mission Accomplished

First, my apologies to my readers for the not writing for a couple of months. Things have been quiet on my blog for a number of reasons. I reviewed two tracks for the Agile2016 conference and prepared three submissions (two of which were accepted). Also, I have been preparing for

Connect for Community in Distributed Teams

Connect for Community in Distributed Teams

Late in 2015, I participated in a great discussion with Ryan Ripley and David Horowitz on distributed agile teams on the Agile For Humans podcast. In that discussion, I mentioned “the importance of explicitly encouraging communication in the team; otherwise it’s not a company just a bunch of people”

Thankful Thursday: AgileOrlando, AgileFlorida, DATFlock and more

Over the last week in the USA, there has been a welcome sentiment of gratitude from last Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday to #GivingTuesday. Since I’m involved in a few communities, I just wanted to take a moment to thank those who have helped me support others in 2015. First,

InfoQ Interview: Distributed teams and distributed user groups

While at Agile2015, InfoQ interviewed me and some of my AgileFlorida.com colleagues and you can now see the InfoQ interview and transcript (25 min). In the interview, we talk about our distributed network of user groups and how we collaborate. A big thank you to Stephanie and Rick for

For distributed agile teams, tools come last

Having worked with a number of distributed agile teams over the years, I’m often asked what is the best tool to use. Many people want to find the one tool that will allow their distributed team to work just like a co-located team. I find that there are usually

Discussing Distributed Teams and Agile Coaching with @Retrium

Recently, I was interviewed by David Horowitz of Retrium. We discussed agile coaching and distributed teams as we have both seen many. I appreciate the opportunity to have the discussion with David and I look forward to speaking with him and others at the upcoming Distributed Agile Teams camp.

Why You Want a BackChannel in Distributed Meetings

When I started facilitating my first distributed meetings, I ran into a problem that many encounter: my primary collaboration tool would fail. It usually involved one person “losing connection” or in some cases the whole collaboration software system crashing for everyone. Regardless, it meant that someone in the conversation was

Where can I find a cool agile remote job?

So I’ve been getting this question recently as I blog more about it. Here are my suggestions: * update your LinkedIn profile to reflect any remote/distributed work in the past and make sure you enable the option that you are looking for a job (somewhere in settings) * write/blog

Agile2015 - 3 stories of successful distributed agile teams (I hope)

Some folks have asked me “Why 3 submissions”? The typical strategy for the Agile20xx conference is to get in more than one with the hope that one will be accepted. That wasn’t my plan at all. I had one story in mind and it ended up expanding into three.

Remotely Agile: The Buddy System

Remotely Agile: The Buddy System

Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how I could help distributed teams work as if they were face-to-face teams. So I am starting a series of posts where I hope to share some practical tips for