Justyna Wykowska

We agile veterans know that simply transforming a company’s IT team to agility without affecting the rest of the business is the equivalent of putting a high performance engine and steering system inside of a freight train. You’ll likely get where you are going faster, but you’ll still go to the same places, hauling pretty much the same cargo. (Maybe just more of the cargo at the same speed).

You can hear that Scrum Master is a team coach. But not many people asks what it means to be a coach. What’s the difference between coach and mentor, trainer, manager or other people who are influencing our grow? And what’s the difference between Agile and Personal coaching.

A quick and fun exercise to help you learn alternative estimation methods.

Almost four years ago, in June 2012, I asked two of my friends to help me set up a local Agile group in Krakow. A few months later we held the first ALE Krakow meeting. Since then we’ve grown tremendously: from two dozen people at early meetings to more than a hundred on every event; from no social media to Facebook and Twitter accounts and more than a thousand members at a meet-up; from presentations done by local speakers to hosting international experts from all over the Europe and the USA.

We’ve asked our friends and colleagues working with us to prepare articles explaining why the things they’re sharing are important. We continue this series with Chet Hendrickson on Agile Engineering Practices.