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The Agile Coach Camp Worldwide Initiative (ACC-WW) is beginning its 2024 worldwide tour in Costa Rica!
As an experiment to increase participation from countries with devel…
Paul Boos
Paul is an Strategic Agility & Innovation Coach with Excella helping managers and teams improve their game. He focuses on applying Agile and Lean techniques to create and lead more effective organizations.
Paul has led small teams to large groups as a software development manager in Federal, commercial, and contractor organizations and coached in the private and public sectors. He is a retired Commander from the US Navy and served in the Naval Air Systems Command, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 34 in his Naval career.
As an active Agile community member, he has founded numerous groups to help coaches and Scrum Masters, including the Agile Influencers of DC and the Games for Agility, Learning, and Engagement (GALEDC). He serves as the chair for the Agile Alliance's Agile Coach Camp and Agile Coach Camp Worldwide initiatives and is a regular reviewer in various Agile 20XX tracks.
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Our world became topsy-turvy because of the COVID pandemic. Agile Coach Camp Worldwide was no exception.
Agile Coach Camp Worldwide (ACC-WW) is normally held the weekend pr…
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If you aren’t aware, thanks to COVID-19 Agile Coach Camp Worldwide has gone virtual with the Home Edition.
This gives an opportunity to have even broader participation across …
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Are you a coach interested in connecting with other coaches, improving your skills, engaging with others to create ideas, AND helping fellow coaches do the same? Then perhaps …
Agile Games
This is a semi-self-paced retro designed to be done within 60-75 minutes. It uses the board from the board game Clue as a metaphor. This retro was designed for use on Mural or…
Agile Games
Each team (or organization) has 4 items (stories or projects) to complete. We will simulate these by placing suits of cards in order.
Materials
For every 5 people, you’…
Agile Games
This is an exercise to help people understand why pair programming works; in particular why it produces better code. It has some usefulness for helping technical team members …
Agile Games
This is a retrospective technique I learned from Esther Derby and Jerry Weinberg. I've extended it a bit differently into the analysis and deciding what to do portions as they…
Agile Games
Background
This is an idea I presented at the Retrospective Facilitator's Gathering in May 2019. Newspaper articles tell stories based on facts. So this retrospective idea …
Agile Games
In 1967, Melvin Conway introduced the idea that states
“organizations which design systems… are constrained to produce designs which
are copies of the communication structures…
Agile Games
Pass on Perfection is a game suitable for creating a Minimally Viable Product or anything else you need that is minimally viable. Several people have reported on using it for …
Initiatives
Initiative Purpose
The Purpose of this Initiative is to help continuously improve Agile Coaches' skills so that they are well-equipped to help organizations and their teams…
Initiatives
About this Initiative
The purpose of this Initiative is to help continuously improve the skills of Agile Coaches so that they are well-equipped to help organizations and th…
