Doc Norton opened the conference with a keynote session introducing the topic of Host Leadership and drawing parallels to this style of leadership. He used personal experience of hosting a Euchre party for his community with the intent of bringing everyone together, incorporating a nice mix of traditional and servant based leadership principles. Read More…
Intelliware once again sponsored the 9th annual Toronto Agile conference which took place on Monday November 14th at the Hilton Toronto (downtown). Read More…
Recently, Keith Shiner, VP of Financial Services at Intelliware, was interviewed by Victor Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology. Keith shares Intelliware’s experiences and his personal perspective on Agile in Financial Services, which was subsequently featured in a two-part story. Read More…
If you’ve ever been golfing, you know the definition of the word “infuriating”. No matter how much time we spend practicing, we don’t ever have complete control over our game. If our irons are working well one day, our woods may betray us. Read More…
I have had the pleasure in working in the types of environments described in Google’s article twice in my career, once in the early 2000’s when I led an Agile adoption and currently at Intelliware. In both instances, I have been working in the field of software development, and in both cases, Agile methodologies were used to deliver software. Read More…
Lawrence Ludlow on February 12, 2016 In my previous post – Automated testing, Agile planning and the Theory of Constraints – Part 1 I discussed why teams that don’t write enough automated tests can run into …
Lawrence Ludlow on February 2, 2016 Several Agile teams that we have recently worked within a coaching capacity have been having challenges with sprint planning – their estimates don’t seem to represent the actual amount of work required to complete their stories and they’re not sure what their velocity is even after having completed a number of sprints. Read More…
For most of my professional life, I was raised on a cubicle farm, subdivided from my colleagues and team members, from management, from everybody else with whom I worked. I …
