Posted by Nicole Belilos late at night: January 25th, 2012
How do you change the way you live or work? Many people, and companies, seem to think it’s enough to adopt just one or two practices. While they continue their old habits, too. Will this lead you to your desired outcome? Or will you just get frustrated?
Posted by Nicole Belilos in the wee hours: October 1st, 2011
Let me introduce you to Nick, Martijn and Harold. Junior developers at a large company. They were good. They were young. And they were angry.
Angry, because they felt they were being held down by the system. As junior developers they only got to do simple, boring work. They were unable to show all their knowledge, or use the cool things they had learned in college. Their salary matched the level of the work they did, and this was another big frustration.
Then one day the company decided to transfer to Agile, and the lives of Nick, Martijn and Harold changed. While in the beginning it looked like a great improvement, the young men soon got trapped…
Posted by Nicole Belilos mid-afternoon: April 27th, 2011
In Agile, we prefer Individuals over Processes and Tools. However, we hardly ever hear about these individuals, as we tend to focus on teams. In my daily life as an Agile coach, I see the effects Agile has on individuals, how they love it or hate it, resist or adopt, struggle or embrace.
I want to blog about these individuals who are the key to any Agile success. My tales are true stories of real people. I have only changed their names and some small facts to preserve their privacy.
This blog is about Chris, a tester whose resistance to Agile was very big. Read what he went through, and be surprised by the end of this story.