Lets Do It One More Once
Every once in a while it is good to go back to the origins and see where we are coming from, so we can decide where to go next.
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Steve Ropa
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Exercises
There is a famous exercise book for trombonists called Method for Trombone, by Jean Baptiste Arban. It was originally a cornet method...
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Steve Ropa
Mar 7, 20222 min read
Music as Iterative Development
An orchestra performance is a great illustration of iterative development.
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Steve Ropa
Jul 27, 20202 min read
Keeping things Tidy
I'd like to tell a story. When I became a woodworker, I was lucky enough to be able to obtain many of the tools necessary for a...
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Steve Ropa
Jul 21, 20202 min read
Maybe we were wrong?
After three plus months of enforced remote work, it turns out you *can* be agile and work remotely.
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Steve Ropa
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Clipboard Oriented Programming?
Programming is far more than copying the code someone else wrote
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Steve Ropa
Feb 23, 20125 min read
Learning your scales
Recently, we looked at how a jazz combo is a great metaphor for the interactions and exchanges that make up a great small team. The...
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Steve Ropa
Jan 24, 20126 min read
Making Beautiful Music – A new way at considering small teams
<Adapted from my article in CM Crossroads titled “Making Beautiful Music Together”> Have you ever watched a jazz combo? The performance...
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Steve Ropa
Jan 10, 20123 min read
Everything I learned about Scrum Teams I learned from M*A*S*H
I like to participate in discussion groups. I enjoy the discussions themselves, and I also like “meeting” the folks who are...
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Steve Ropa
Dec 29, 20113 min read
Get over it already
Is it fair to call Quasimodo ugly? Earlier this year, on the LinkedIn Agile discussion group, someone posted the question “Is it fair or...
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Steve Ropa
Aug 30, 20113 min read
Can an Agile Team have Managers?
I have a confession to make. I’m a manager. I’ve been a manager for many years. I’ve led agile development teams most of that time. ...
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Steve Ropa
Jul 29, 20113 min read
When is it Good Enough
I’m a woodworker. I love to work with wood, and I truly enjoy the sense of satisfaction that comes from the work I do. I think this is...
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Steve Ropa
Jul 7, 20113 min read
Managing Technical Debt
Debt seems to be on every-one’s mind these days. You can’t open a newspaper anywhere in the world without seeing some article about some...
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Steve Ropa
Nov 10, 20103 min read
Going Back to the Beginning
I had a very interesting conversation on the scrumdevelopment yahoo group this week that really got me thinking about a few things. The...
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Steve Ropa
Sep 28, 20102 min read
Self Organization is an Emergent Behavior
Ever since I got involved in the agile development community, I’ve struggled with the concept of self organizing teams. We all know that...
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