Brad Storm at MIT Sloan

I read the following story about “post-it developlment” (or maybe I should abbreviate it to PiD to make people use it). In short, it’s a story about a software project where requirements are vague or floating but they’re still supposed to deliver. The one thing that got me about this story was the balance of the project manager, a former developer who had now turned manager. The agile manager must balance a sharp edge between leadership without being imposing. Apparently, this guy manages this. A great story from conchango.com.
http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/archive/2005/07/08/1780.aspx

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So I got tagged, by my so-called “friend” Jon Arild. Supposedly I’d give you 5 things you didn’t know about me. I would rather give 5 things you DID know about me, but I’ll play along.

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After conducting two sprints with a consecutive testperiod, where everything did not end up the way we wanted it to be, we found it to be a good time to do some retrospective. Of course, this should be done after each sprint, and to a certain extent it has. However, we had much to talk about after this delivery. Here’s an example of our retrospective
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