Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam

After posting my review of Kent Beck’s webinar back in November, I contacted Kent to confirm it was ok with him to publish.

As part of doing this,  I asked Kent if there were good people in Australia who could provide us assistance in transitioning to Agile.

Hence, Kent pointed us at Steve Hayes of Cogent Consulting, who we have been recently using to provide us some greater understanding of different aspects of Agile (though I read recently that Steve is planning to leave)!

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Back on 29th July, I had the good fortune of attending an event provided by the IIB entitled “Building the Resilient Company”.  I posted some comments about this at the time here.

During this event, I heard a presentation by Evan Fortune (one of the founders of Vision 6) and was impressed with his story.

In his presentation, Evan mentioned a couple of consultants/coaches they had utilised to work through some of the muddle in which they had found themselves as a result of the growth they had experienced over several years.  One of these was Shirlaws.

I met with Evan on a couple of occasions following from this, and (based on what Evan told us of their successes with his firm) opted to give Shirlaws a try – calling them in as one of several external resources during the Autopsy 2 process.

Stay tuned to this blog for more details about how much value we gain from Shirlaws!