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Friday, December 16, 2016

Should the Product Owner participate in every Scrum event?

All events in Scrum should help the Scrum Team reach the best possible results and every team should work out their own way of working.
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Friday, December 9, 2016

How Agile Coaching changes things

People need empowerment. Empowerment comes from coaching.
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Timeboxing – A powerful tool

A deadline is probably the most frequently crossed border in the world. The purpose of a timebox is different to a deadline. Timeboxing is about improvement, not about being a tool of oppression. The idea behind a timebox is to be better mo…
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

You Don’t Need to Think of Everything During Sprint Planning

During a sprint planning meeting, some may wonder “why am I here trying to determine how many hours this task could take, when I could be actually working on it instead?” They wouldn’t be too far off the mark, either. If your team tries to …
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Are Projects Dead?

In recent years, more people have started to believe that projects are dead or dying. With the industry now boasting more continual work, it’s understandable why projects could be considered relics of the 20th century. However, that isn’t n…
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Overrunning Daily Stand Ups

At some point or another, it’s likely that you’ve had team members complain about the length of daily scrums. Although it’s practically impossible to end complaints once and for all, there are a couple of extremely simple phrases that you c…
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

A Scrum Master is not a Project Manager

Those with little experience in Agile development may assume that a Scrum Master is simply a new and fancier name for a Project Manager. In truth, they couldn’t be more wrong. The two roles are worlds apart.