Want To Get Participation In Your Retrospectives? Torpedo The Sprint
Sometimes no matter how fun you make a retrospective, the team may get comfortable, leading to complacency if things feel they can't get any better....
Want To Succeed? You Need To Be Comfortable With Giving Bad News
Throughout one's career, bad things are inevitably going to happen. A database crashed, the expected report does not have glowing information, and...
Agile Coach: Program Manager
After a few conversations about my Scrum Master: Project Admin post, we delved deeper and added agile coaches to the mix. One of the issues is how...
How To Rebuild Your Social Endurance
Blog post by Valéry Brosseau There is a lovely quote attributed to anthropologist Margaret Mead. She explains that the earliest sign of civilization...
Scrum Master: Project Administrator
In one of my regular discussions with Tom Cagley and his podcast SPaMCAST, we discussed one of the duties that seem to be happening with Scrum...
We Are Agile. We Have Self-Managed Teams…..But
One of the critical parts of an agile environment is to have self-managed teams. A team should have the power to get the work done and make...
The 7th Edition Of The PMBOK© Is Being Called Revolutionary: Is It?
While reading content that others are sharing through my LinkedIn wall, I came across this post about the new edition of the PMBOK© (7th). One of...
Executives Do Not Want To Be Coached: They Don’t See The Value
A general perception in the work environment when someone has reached that executive status is no longer the need to be coached. People are coached...
People Think Being Agile Is About Speed When It Is More Than That
The biggest misconception about doing an agile transformation is that it is all about speed. Increasing the number of releases to the customer is a...
