Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
How to Run a Sprint Retrospective: The Essential Guide
Many agile leaders agree that sprint retrospectives are considered a continuous improvement opportunity for a Scrum team to review the good, the bad—and the ugly. But, there are also team members that waver the idea of sprint retrospectives at the end of every sprint. I'll discuss why Sprint Retrospectives are important for a successful agile project and share some ideas to go from boring to booming.
Prioritizing your monster product: a framework for prioritization
Prioritization is hard. It becomes even harder when a product has been around for a while and has numerous sometimes questionable features — I’m calling these Monster products. If you have one of those, you know it.
About that Scrum Master/Agile Project manager role…
This article isn’t out to start a flame war and say there’s no such thing as an Agile Project Manager. What it is going to discuss is that having a Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager role is an oxymoron and shows a complete misunderstanding of the Scrum Master & Project Manager role.
5 reasons why scrum/agile is not working for you! From the view of a developer
Right now I'm reading through the book by Uncle Bob called "Clean Agile: back to basics." The first two chapters are mostly about the history of Scrum and some of Uncle Bob's experience. So I also wanted to talk about my experience in different companies with different levels of scrum/agile processes. And again this is from a view from a developer! Not a Scrum Master or Product Owner or tester etc.
Three tips for great Product Ownership
The other day I had a conversation with a colleague. He was looking for an opener for a talk - something catchy to illustrate to his audience (mostly finance and banking) that there could well be a need to change their current ways of working.
Tips & Tricks
A day in a life of an Agile Coach
Meet Joy. She’s an Agile Coach who has been working with teams for several years. She loves coaching individuals and teams and gets fulfilled by helping teams bring their whole selves to work and deliver value to customers.
Story Mapping- Visualizing Your Backlog
A common problem we all face when starting a project is how do we make the first iteration of work visible to a newly formed team? A backlog in JIRA or Rally is great for finding and entering stories, but isn’t as helpful when visualizing how the stories will tie together.
Industry News & Analysis
Why Only The Agile Will Survive
The coronavirus crisis has vast biological, economic, leadership, political, social, and moral implications that will be felt for years, if not decades. New ways of working. New ways of playing. New ways of learning. New ways of leading. New ways of living. Everything will be different. This is the mother of all disruptions. It is ushering in a new age.
In Case You Missed It
7 Agile Best Practices
One of my practices is to challenge assumptions. So I challenged my assumptions that there are no agile best practices. And I came up with seven.
Why Scrum suits a complex context
Applying Stacey’s (and Zimmerman’s) complexity theory to Scrum. For Scrum teams, solving complex adaptive problems can feel more like an… ahem… impossible mission than a… cruise. Sorry.