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Our friend Lars invited us to Oslo this weekend to run a session for Miles on “Scaling Agile”. It is generally accepted now that agile methods work very well in these sorts of circumstances:

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Unfortunately, we rarely get to work on projects like that! Most of our projects are more like this:

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The point of the talk was to discuss the challenges involved in scaling agile to work on these sorts of projects. The guys were mostly interested in distributed and fixed-price projects, so we focussed on that. Afterwards, I ran an Open Space session where the discussion centred around agile enterprise adoption, integration projects and tools. Miles are a really talented and enthusiastic group of people, so spending a weekend with them was a lot of fun. Thanks guys!

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A move consists of taking an appropriate colour card and writing on it either a form of Change, a form of Resistance to that Change, a possible Reason for the Resistance or finally a possible Response to that Resistance. Moves can be played in any order by anyone. Here’s a picture of one of the areas we explored - Fixed Price Contracts:

So, what was this all about? As a consultant, you often come across resistance to new ways of working. For example, introducing Pair Programming is often met with resistance from managers who don’t understand why we are doing it. I sometimes find myself trotting out the same responses to this sort of resistance, without really thinking about it.

I thought the game was interesting because it made me focus on exactly what is the reason behind resistance, rather than making assumptions about it. I think you could adapt this game to get some interesting results in Retrospectives.

I had fun at XPDay this year. It felt less “extreme” than in previous years, as people seemed to focus on pragmatic advice and techniques rather than evangelism.

One of my favourite sessions was Dan and Joe’s Awesome Acceptance Testing. They identified 5 aspects to any acceptance testing regime:

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