Yes, another catchup blog post! The hot topic this week – What potential problems could there be practicing Lean Startup-like ideas in an established environment?

A very very nice set of topics were brought up and discussed this session:

  • What potential problems could there be practicing Lean Startup-like ideas in an established environment?
    • Design Thinking, e.g. Nordstrom
    • Deutsch Telekom case study
    • Lean Startup classes here at E29 and CBRIN
    • Enterprise Immune System, EIS
    • Experienced startup peeps might use Lean Startup
  • Team updating boards (without constant reminding)
    • If you don’t move a ticket then you get to do a daily email report
    • Bring it up in retro
    • Make people accountable
  • What is pair programming? How do you do it?
    • The effect from a best practice, it’s a forcing function to create readable code
    • It’s a cultural shift and requires comparable personalities
    • Book by Crosby, “Quality is Free”
    • The bug curve
    • 1 terminal with many devs
    • Productivity is visible
    • 1 dev writes, 1 dev talks
    • Just plain ol’ pairing, not just devs
    • Quality
    • Knowledge transfer
  • Should a Scoutmaster care about what the team builds?
    • Is the Scrummaster as Project Manager?
    • Get the interested people involved
  • Who handles a team member who doesn’t wasn’t to agile?
  • Can you cancel a sprint?
  • Collaboration tools
  • Refactor or rewrite
  • Lean Coffee should involve actual coffee (or beer)

The topics in bold were discussed and the notes are included above for your reference.

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Plus we got nice feedback – Great talks. Interesting topics. Good atmosphere, inclusive.

Thanks! Well, see you next time…

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