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, 2022
- 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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Steve Ropa
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Music as Iterative Development
An orchestra performance is a great illustration of iterative development.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steve Ropa
- Sep 28, 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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