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A few month back, we applied for a stadium pack of tickets during the upcoming Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.  This week we learned that our Eden Park application was accepted.  We’re going to New Zealand, baby!! Our pack includes tickets for the opening match of New...

I was having a conversation with a manager the other day about the difficulties she was having filling a position.  Everything seemed like an obstacle that could not be overcome – the distances were too far, candidates were good on paper only, not enough time to review...

Last weekend I started practicing with the San Diego Armada – a beginner’s rugby league in San Diego. When I went to the Agile Coach Camp in Michigan, William Pietri suggested that to be an effective coach, one needs to learn how to do something new from time-to-time. It is...

Last weekend I went to the Churchill Cup in Chicago, IL. It was a very fun rugby tournament and I had a great time. I never went to Chicago before, so it was great fun to visit a new city.  Chicago has great architecture and very good restaurants. The winners at the tournament...

Just this week I participated in a WebExchange of yet another “enterprise Scum tool” with all the cool database, web access and reporting features you could dream of. Apart from some serious misunderstandings of just what Scrum is and how it can be made scalable, the tool was OK....

  …well, most of what I do every day is help teams use and implement Scrum (even though I got to Scrum through XP). The name Scrum comes from rugby, so I figured this will serve as a good title as I talk about how I use Scrum to solve problems and assisting people so they can...