Coaching

The Coaching blog focuses on Agile with an emphasis on helping organizations turn Agile principals into successful Agile practices. The blog contains posts from across Rally's Coaching, Services, and Technical Account Manager teams.

2012 was a busy year on the Rally Blogs! Check out this top ten list of our most popular posts that received thousands of views – an eclectic mix of topics including engineering code snippets, strategic agile leadership advice, Rally software product tips, and insights for how to scale...

Posted by Karl Scotland, Mon, 10/29/2012 - 10:51 in Coaching

As I wrote recently about some Rallying adventures, I get to work on some exciting projects. A recent one is the “...

Posted by Wanda Marginean, Thu, 08/30/2012 - 14:55 in Coaching

Last month, Jean Tabaka was a guest speaker at the London Scrum user group where she delivered a talk called, Tell...

Posted by Rally Software, Fri, 07/20/2012 - 10:26 in Coaching

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Posted by Rachel Weston, Wed, 05/16/2012 - 09:33 in Coaching

When I talk with customers about their Agile adoptions, one challenge that comes up repeatedly is “middle management”. What is their role? How does management change in a self-organizing and team-based environment? Will they participate in the Agile transformation? Or will they subvert...

Posted by Karl Scotland, Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:51 in Coaching

I live in Brighton, on the south coast of the UK, about 50 miles from London. This means that I regularly catch the train for meetings or engagements “in town”. When making the journey, I always look at the timetable. Trains only run every 30-60 minutes, so if I get the timing wrong,...

Posted by Rally Software, Tue, 05/01/2012 - 16:46 in Coaching

The UPS delivery guy came by our house the other day. Not so unusual, since he comes by our house on a regular basis. The box he dropped off, however, was oddly more exciting than a new batch of power bars, cat treats and other miscellaneous household items we usually get. This time he...

Posted by Karl Scotland, Tue, 01/17/2012 - 01:00 in Coaching

The last part of 2011 saw a wealth of Lean and Kanban conferences in Europe, which Rally Coaches Karl Scotland and Katherine Kirk took an active part in. Was this surge of events a sign of what’s to come in terms for Agile processes in 2012? Here, we summarise our understanding on...

Posted by Ken Clyne, Thu, 01/12/2012 - 04:00 in Coaching

I’m not a smoker but I know a little about smoking. My mother smoked her whole life. It eventually killed her. I never did understand the grip it had on my mother and those like her until I read ...

Over the past several months I’ve had a recurring conversation with various large, enterprise organizations transitioning from traditional approaches to more Agile methods.

The topic of this conversation has been a discomfort with User Stories, and a desire...

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