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		<title>Team Performance Management Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having set the stage in part 1 of this post, I will now describe specifically how we&#8217;ve set it up.  I should note that template we have come up with applies to all team members, no matter what their specific roles (QA, BA, or developer). Team Performance This is the focus of our performance management [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=222&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Team Performance Management Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most organizations bigger than a small business, we have a performance management process in which every employee participates.  The structure of the process is focused on individual goals and performance metrics.  Unfortunately, managing performance at the individual level doesn&#8217;t work well in a team environment.  In Scrum, peoples&#8217; focus needs to be on how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=210&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading Rework.  I follow the 37Signals blog pretty closely and agree with most of what they say, so I (like many, many other people) have been eagerly anticipating the publication of this book for several months.  I read their last book, Getting Real, and loved it. What did I like about Rework?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=186&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agile PM Scorecard</title>
		<link>http://alexhamer.ca/2010/02/17/agile-pm-scorecard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or the six things I review with my steering committee. Every three weeks I meet with my steering committee to review the status of our system redesign project.  Over the course of a year what we talk about and the information I provide has changed.  We started talking in a more general sense on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=179&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Scrum and Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly I haven&#8217;t posted in a while, which is of course breaking one of the cardinal rules for blogging: post often.  I have enjoyed blogging over the past year and have found it helpful in thinking through some of the major challenges I experienced in learning about Scrum and trying to lead my department to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=171&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time-boxing User Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Estimating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve started to think about the concept of time-boxing for user stories.  In Scrum, most things are, can, or should be time-boxed: sprints, releases, planning sessions.  Providing a time  constraint has demonstrated value: it limits the scope of effort, it can curb expensive and unnecessary perfectionist tendencies, it eliminates waste, and it forces prioritization. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=164&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alexhamer.ca/2009/11/10/hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alexhamer.ca/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since we adopted Scrum, I am looking for staff.  Specifically I&#8217;m looking for a new development manager (the current one is moving out of country) as well as a programmer.  My perspective on hiring has changed dramatically in the past year. For starters, I believe it&#8217;s important to find people who&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=148&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scrum: A Year in Review</title>
		<link>http://alexhamer.ca/2009/10/06/scrum-a-year-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was early October of last year that we took the first steps towards adopting Scrum and undertaking the challenge of becoming more agile.  I figure this is a good time to review the year, the progress we&#8217;ve made, and the challenges we still have to overcome. Original intentions My original intentions with Scrum were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=143&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a Second Scrum Team</title>
		<link>http://alexhamer.ca/2009/09/10/adding-a-second-scrum-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks we&#8217;ve been trying to figure out the best way to integrate a second team &#8212; sort of &#8212; into the project.  My understanding is that there are some standard practices around expanding to a second Scrum team, which involve either splitting the first team and adding members to each to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=140&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting Quality in Scrum</title>
		<link>http://alexhamer.ca/2009/07/28/promoting-quality-in-scrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted.  Things in the project have settled down somewhat and I find we&#8217;re no longer struggling with many of the basics around how to be an agile team.  I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re there yet, but we&#8217;re definitely past the &#8216;storming&#8217; phase of team formation. At our last sprint review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexhamer.ca&amp;blog=6187310&amp;post=132&amp;subd=alexhamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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