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    Exercises
    Steve Ropa
    • Mar 25
    • 2 min

    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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    Music as Iterative Development
    Steve Ropa
    • Mar 7
    • 2 min

    Music as Iterative Development

    An orchestra performance is a great illustration of iterative development.
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    Keeping things Tidy
    Steve Ropa
    • Jul 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Maybe we were wrong?
    Steve Ropa
    • Jul 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Clipboard Oriented Programming?
    Steve Ropa
    • Jul 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    Clipboard Oriented Programming?

    Programming is far more than copying the code someone else wrote
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    Learning your scales
    Steve Ropa
    • Feb 23, 2012
    • 5 min

    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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    Making Beautiful Music – A new way at considering small teams
    Steve Ropa
    • Jan 24, 2012
    • 6 min

    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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    Everything I learned about Scrum Teams I learned from M*A*S*H
    Steve Ropa
    • Jan 10, 2012
    • 3 min

    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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    Get over it already
    Steve Ropa
    • Dec 29, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    Can an Agile Team have Managers?
    Steve Ropa
    • Aug 30, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    When is it Good Enough
    Steve Ropa
    • Jul 29, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    Managing Technical Debt
    Steve Ropa
    • Jul 7, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    Going Back to the Beginning
    Steve Ropa
    • Nov 10, 2010
    • 3 min

    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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    Self Organization is an Emergent Behavior
    Steve Ropa
    • Sep 29, 2010
    • 2 min

    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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