One reason I started this blog is that my left and right brains don’t seem to be connected to each other: I tend not to know what I think until I hear myself stating an opinion, and then I’m often horrified by what I hear. So blogging is a bit like talking to myself. Steven… [Read more…]
July 20, 2007
The latest edition of the Carnival is brought to you by Pete Behrens, with a distinctively “management” flavour. And having myself been called an Agile Nazi – and worse – I gained some support from the posts I had missed first time around, particularly Julie Brooks’ Who Coaches the Coach?. The next Carnival is due… [Read more…]
June 1, 2006
Lecturing can get an agile transition off to a bad start; here are some alternatives
May 3, 2006
The best measures of a coach's effectiveness may be trends, such as "falling cycle time"
April 3, 2006
It seems to me that "process improvement" for software development is pointless. Instead, we need to think in terms of the team's effectiveness in helping the greater organisation's profitability. In that light, how can we measure the value provided by an agile software development coach? I have no idea, but I do have a load of questions
October 27, 2005
Exploring the limits of the Socratic method
December 20, 2004
I just had a project cancelled. So if you know anyone who needs an agile coach or analyst in the Manchester area...
December 13, 2004
Chris Matts describes the attributes required by a good business coach
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
January 11, 2008
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