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89 Tips From The agile Trenches

for scrummasters & agile coaches

YvesHanoulle

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About the Book

In 2002 the agile manifesto was published. Since then thousands of people have been trained in scrum & other agile ways of working.

The first sentence of the agile manifesto says: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. This book is about helping others, and contains tips Yves collected from people in the trenches, eg people who are doing it.

agile working improves with more diversity, this book collects wisdom from 89 agile experts, living in 28 countries and with 27 nationalities.

Today the book contains these tips :

Foreword by Jerry Weinberg.

  • We are continuously uncovering (Sander Hoogendoorn)
  • RI Mode Sprint Planning (Ivan Darmawan)
  • You will never arrive at THE destination (Naresh Jain)
  • Become a continuous learner and model that (Diana Larsen)
  • Ask for permission (Michael Sahota)
  • The scrum police are coming for you (or are they?) (Mike Cohn)
  • Manage the shape of your backlog (Shane Hastie)
  • Helping team members to solve impediments over solving impediments themselves (Ben Linders)
  • Different Ideas for Defect Management (Katrina Clokie)
  • Observe (Henrik Kniberg)
  • Why and How to Claim Wins For Personal and Team Power(Christopher Avery)
  • Know The Work (Johanna Rothman)
  • Question your teams intimacy (Karthik Kamal B)
  • Love your customer (Ardita Karaj)
  • Are You Really Doing It? (Jutta Eckstein)
  • Coaching By Listening (Yassal Sundman)
  • Learning is fun but can be painful (Aino Corry)
  • Facilitate learning (Clare Sudbery)
  • Enable growth (Rashina Hoda)
  • Create a high-bandwith work environment (Lisette Sutherland)
  • Arrive with your whole heart (Samantha Laing &Karen Graeves)
  • How to reduce groupthink in remote meetings (Judy Rees)
  • Becoming Better through the Community (Allison Pollard)
  • The evolutionary path from authority to agility (Linda Rising)
  • You are an informal leader - which leadership skills do you need? (Mina Boström Nakicenovic)
  • Becoming Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable (Michele Sliger)
  • Stop protecting your team (Jenni & Ole Jepsen)
  • Care about feedback (Emilie Franchomme)
  • Bypassing Binary Thinking for Better Understanding (George Dinwiddie)
  • Build Your Netwerk (Siddharta Govindaraj)
  • Turn Up the Good (Woody Zuill)
  • Be like a good parent (Nicole Belilos)
  • Two simple heuristics that will solve (most of) the problems you face as a Scrum Master (Vasco Duarte)
  • Processes should enhance people's ability to work, not prevent it. (Angela Riggs)
  • Happy Storming (Chris Matts)
  • Silent dotvoting (Bart Vermijlen)
  • Study the agile manifesto (Yves Hanoulle)
  • Retrospectives are the most valuable agile practice (Lisa Crispin)
  • Collaboration (Zuzi Sochova)
  • Build Systems, not Software (Corey Ladas)
  • Never forget that Scrum is just as simple as chess! (Rini Van Solingen)
  • Every team needs a Working Agreement (Dana Pylayeva)
  • There’s no one-size-fits-all approach (Stacey Ackerman)
  • Curiosity Over Judgment (Tim Ottinger)
  • Improve quality of meetings (Ivo Peksens)
  • Going Viral (Tom Perry)
  • Zoom Out (Tobias Fors)
  • Eliminate comparison and encourage progress (Hina Popal)
  • Stop, Collaborate and listen (Terry Harmer)
  • Effective Teams are NOT Efficient (Olaf Lewitz)
  • Crafting Quality Interactions (Joanne Perold)
  • Letting Go (Stacia Viscardi)
  • Support the interactions between individuals (Emily Webber)
  • Introverts on Agile teams, and how small changes can make a big difference (Tobias Anderberg)
  • Empower team change (Heidi Helfand)
  • Coaching teams: A journey of contradictions and context as a crucial driver (Ravi Kumar)
  • Study how the work works (Cesario Ramos)
  • Things happen in their own time(Corinna Baldauf)
  • 9 Rules of thumb to improve your backlog refinement workshops (Jeff Patton)
  • Working software over ... almost anything (Ron Jeffries)
  • How Act Is More Important Than What You Say You Believe (Tom Cagley)
  • Ownership in Agile: Purpose and collaboration (Oana Juncu)
  • Since all those companies work Agile, we don’t longer receive any commitment. (Nele Van Beveren)
  • Visualize more! (Jimmy Janlén)
  • Holding Space for growth (Irene Kuhn)
  • Craft Experiences Not Arguments (Michael (Mike) Hill )
  • The value of reverie (Ilan Kirschenbaum)
  • The gut feeling ordering practice( Jürgen De Smet)
  • Building Client Trust (Lanette Creamer)
  • Don't forget to mine for conflict (Daria Bagina)
  • Where did governance go (Phil Gadzinski)
  • Creating Collaborative Connective tissues (Tony Ponton)
  • Technical Debt And Product Success (Roman Pichler)
  • Self-Organized teams (Madhavi Ledalla)
  • Forget about all the practices and focus on what you deliver (Brenda Bao)
  • It’s not just the question you ask, but how you ask it! (Tze Chin Tang)
  • Slow Down, Then Speed Up. (Selena Delesie)
  • Asynchronous management: Simplicity in a digital workplace. (Molood Ceccarelli)
  • Agile Coaching Agreement as Creative Partnership (Nadezhda Belousova)
  • Love is key (Anke Maerz)
  • Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation (Daniel Terhorst-North)
  • Fool didn’t know it was impossible, so she did it! (Deepti Jain)
  • Let's talk about the p-word (Karen Catlin)
  • Mind the short and the long (Tsutomu Yasui)
  • Montague Street Bridge (Kanatcha Sakdiset)
  • agile =/= Speed (Kevlin Henney)

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YvesHanoulle

The Agile community knows Yves Hanoulle from his many contributions, such as the public Agile conferences Google calendar, his Agile Thursday Quiz, the coach retreats and conferences he’s paired to organize, daily coaching questions via @Retroflections, and the Agile Games Google group, just to name a few. He promoted PairCoaching, an idea which has been adopted by many agile trainers and coaches. He’s constantly learning, and passing on what he learns as a coach and trainer to organizations large and small.

A self-identified change artist and first follower, one of Yves’ unique qualities is that he gives free lifetime support on anything he does: every client, everything he writes and presents, every workshop he leads.

Yves believes in maintaining a sustainable pace both professionally and personally. Yves has parentpair programmed an android game with his 13 year old son www.anguis.be You can learn more about Yves at http://www.hanoulle.be/yves-hanoulle/, and find him on social media as YvesHanoulle.

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Table of Contents

1Foreword

2Preface

3We are uncovering better ways of developing software

  1. 3.1We are continuously uncovering
  2. 3.2You will never arrive at THE destination
  3. 3.3Become a continuous learner and model that…
  4. 3.4Create a high-bandwidth work environment
  5. 3.5Becoming Better through the Community
  6. 3.6Turn Up the Good
  7. 3.7Study the manifesto
  8. 3.8Visualize More !
  9. 3.9Holding Space for growth
  10. 3.10Don’t forget to mine for conflict
  11. 3.11Asynchronous management: Simplicity in a digital workplace

4by doing it

  1. 4.1Observe
  2. 4.2Question your teams intimacy
  3. 4.3Are You Really Doing It?
  4. 4.4You are an informal leader – which leadership skills do you need?
  5. 4.5Be like a good parent
  6. 4.6Stop, Collaborate and Listen…
  7. 4.7How Act Is More Important Than What You Say You Believe
  8. 4.8The value of reverie
  9. 4.9Forget about all the practices and focus on what you deliver
  10. 4.10Fool didn’t know it was impossible, so she did it!

5and helping others do it.

  1. 5.1Ask for permission
  2. 5.2Helping team members to solve impediments over solving impediments themselves
  3. 5.3Coaching By Listening
  4. 5.4Learning is fun but can be painful
  5. 5.5Silent Dotvoting
  6. 5.6Retrospectives are the most valuable agile practice
  7. 5.7Never forget that Scrum is just as simple as chess!
  8. 5.8Zoom Out
  9. 5.9Support the interactions between individuals
  10. 5.10It’s not just the question you ask, but how you ask it!
  11. 5.11Let’s talk about the p-word.

6Through this work we have come to value

  1. 6.1Why and How to Claim Wins For Personal and Team Power
  2. 6.2Know the Work
  3. 6.3How To Reduce Groupthink In remote Meetings
  4. 6.4Becoming Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
  5. 6.5Curiosity Over Judgment
  6. 6.6Letting Go
  7. 6.7Introverts on Agile teams, and how small changes can make a big difference
  8. 6.8Craft Experiences Not Arguments
  9. 6.9Slow Down, then Speed up
  10. 6.10Mind the short and the long

7Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

  1. 7.1The scrum police are coming for you (or are they?)
  2. 7.2Different Ideas for Defect Management
  3. 7.3Facilitate Learning
  4. 7.4Arrive with you whole heart
  5. 7.5Care about feedback
  6. 7.6Build your network
  7. 7.7Processes should enhance people’s ability to work, not prevent it.
  8. 7.8Happy Storming
  9. 7.9Crafting quality interactions
  10. 7.10Nine Rules of thumb to improve your backlog refinement workshops
  11. 7.11Ownership in Agile: Purpose and collaboration
  12. 7.12The gut feeling ordering practice
  13. 7.13Creating Collaborative Connective tissues
  14. 7.14Self-Organized teams

8Working software over comprehensive documentation

  1. 8.1Manage the shape of your backlog.
  2. 8.2Build Systems, not Software
  3. 8.3Every team needs a Working Agreement
  4. 8.4Effective Teams are NOT Efficient
  5. 8.5Empower “Team Change”
  6. 8.6Study how the work works
  7. 8.7Working software over …. almost everything
  8. 8.8Technical Debt And Product Success
  9. 8.9Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation
  10. 8.10Montague Street Bridge

9Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

  1. 9.1Stop protecting your team
  2. 9.2Two simple heuristics that will solve (most of) the problems you face as a Scrum Master
  3. 9.3Collaboration
  4. 9.4There’s no one-size-fits-all approach
  5. 9.5Increase quality of meetings
  6. 9.6Coaching teams: A journey of contradictions and context as a crucial driver
  7. 9.7Since all those companies work Agile, we don’t longer receive any commitment.
  8. 9.8Building Client Trust
  9. 9.9Agile Coaching Agreement as Creative Partnership

10Responding to change over following a plan

  1. 10.1Love your customer
  2. 10.2Enable Growth
  3. 10.3The evolutionary path from authority to agility
  4. 10.4Bypassing Binary Thinking for Better Understanding
  5. 10.5Going Viral
  6. 10.6Eliminate comparison and encourage progress
  7. 10.7Things happen in their own time
  8. 10.8Where did governance go?
  9. 10.9“RI” Mode Sprint Planning
  10. 10.10Love is key
  11. 10.11Agility =/= Speed

11Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

12Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

  1. 12.1Norm Kerth
  2. 12.2Jean Tabaka
  3. 12.3Mike Beedle
  4. 12.4Jerry Weinberg
  5. 12.5David Hussman

13Paying It Forward

  1. 13.1Project Alloy
  2. 13.2CoderDojo
  3. 13.3Black Girls Code
  4. 13.4Women who code
  5. 13.5Close the gap
  6. 13.6Impala Bride
  7. 13.7Exchange vzw

14Contributors

  1. 14.1Aino Corry
  2. 14.2Allison Pollard
  3. 14.3Angela Riggs
  4. 14.4Anke Maerz
  5. 14.5Ardita Karaj
  6. 14.6Bart Vermijlen
  7. 14.7Ben Linders
  8. 14.8Brenda Bao
  9. 14.9Cesario Ramos
  10. 14.10Chris Matts
  11. 14.11Christopher Avery
  12. 14.12Clare Sudbery
  13. 14.13Corey Ladas
  14. 14.14Corinna Baldauf
  15. 14.15Dana Pylayeva
  16. 14.16Dan Terhorst-North
  17. 14.17Daria Bagina
  18. 14.18David (dude) Hussman
  19. 14.19Deepti Jain
  20. 14.20Diana Larsen
  21. 14.21Emilie Franchomme
  22. 14.22Emily Webber
  23. 14.23George Dinwiddie
  24. 14.24Heidi Helfand
  25. 14.25Henrik Kniberg
  26. 14.26Hina Popal
  27. 14.27Ilan Kirschenbaum
  28. 14.28Irene Kuhn
  29. 14.29Ivan Darmawan
  30. 14.30Ivo Peksens
  31. 14.31Jeff Patton
  32. 14.32Jenni Jepsen
  33. 14.33Jerry Weinberg
  34. 14.34Jimmy Janlén
  35. 14.35Joanne Perold
  36. 14.36Johanna Rothman
  37. 14.37Judy Rees
  38. 14.38Jürgen De Smet
  39. 14.39Jutta Eckstein
  40. 14.40Kanatcha Sakdiset
  41. 14.41Karen Catlin
  42. 14.42Karen Graeves
  43. 14.43Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam
  44. 14.44Katrina Clokie
  45. 14.45Kevlin Henney
  46. 14.46Lanette Creamer
  47. 14.47Linda Rising
  48. 14.48Lisa Crispin
  49. 14.49Lisette Sutherland
  50. 14.50Madhavi Ledalla
  51. 14.51Michael Sahota
  52. 14.52Mina Boström Nakicenovic
  53. 14.53Michele Sliger
  54. 14.54Michael Hill
  55. 14.55Mike Cohn
  56. 14.56Molood Ceccarelli
  57. 14.57Nadezhda Belousova
  58. 14.58Naresh Jain, Founder ConfEngine
  59. 14.59Nele Van Beveren
  60. 14.60Nicole Belilos
  61. 14.61Oana Juncu
  62. 14.62Olaf Lewitz
  63. 14.63Ole Jepsen
  64. 14.64Phil Gadzinski
  65. 14.65Rashina Hoda
  66. 14.66Ravi Kumar
  67. 14.67Rini Vansolingen
  68. 14.68Roman Pichler
  69. 14.69Ron Jeffries
  70. 14.70Samantha Laing
  71. 14.71Sander Hoogendoorn
  72. 14.72Selena Delesie
  73. 14.73Shane Hastie
  74. 14.74Siddharta Govindaraj
  75. 14.75Stacey Ackerman
  76. 14.76Stacia Viscardi
  77. 14.77Tim Ottinger
  78. 14.78Tobias Anderberg
  79. 14.79Tobias Fors
  80. 14.80Tom Cagley
  81. 14.81Tom Perry
  82. 14.82Tony Ponton
  83. 14.83Terry Harmer
  84. 14.84Tsutomu Yasui
  85. 14.85Tze Chin Tang
  86. 14.86Vasco Duarte
  87. 14.87Woody Zuill
  88. 14.88Yassal Sundman
  89. 14.89Yves Hanoulle
  90. 14.90Zuzi Zuzana Sochova

15Resources

16Library

17Versions

  1. 17.1The e-book
  2. 17.2The audio book addition
  3. 17.3The paper version

18Errata

  1. 18.1Edition 2021-11-06
  2. 18.2Edition 2021-11-13
  3. 18.3Edition 2021-11-21

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