Agile Story Time: The Kingdom Uses A Magic Tool To Be The Best Kingdom In The Land
This is a tale of a King and Queen’s quest to be the best of all the realms. In their journey, they find ways to help them get what they want. What happened was not expected by anybody.
A Big Agile Anti-Pattern Hiding In Plain Sight
With agile environments becoming more commonplace, why are there still difficulties in getting the value they can provide? Why are there products...
Becoming A Super Coach
As a coach, there is a very slim possibility that those you coach will have all the same personalities; forget about a team with everyone having the...
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...
