65 Tasks for an Agile Coach
Agile Coaches (CSP-SM) are really busy people! There is no way one person can do all these activities on this list each week nor would it make sense to do so, but an effective Agile Coach would be working on most these jobs every six months or so. Rome was not...
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What Does an Agile Coach Do?
“Yes… but what does an Agile Coach do all day?” If I had a quarter for ever time I was asked that question in Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course, I would have a lot of quarters. Thankfully, we have an excellent article from Bernd Schiffer (@bernrdschiffer) that lays out forty-two tasks...
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What A CEO Truly Thinks About Agile – Piyush Gupta’s Perspective
I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural internal Agile conference by DBS Bank in Singapore, which to my surprise opened with comments by the CEO Piyush Gupta. The term “comments’’ fails to describe Piyush’s exceptional articulation of how Agile connects to the bank’s strategy. He covered three major topics...
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The Five Levels of Involvement for a Meeting
Ever show up to a meeting expecting your ideas and comments to be taken in consideration only to be cut short by the clock? Or perhaps you have had the experience of participating in a Q&A session only to see it morph into a sustained dialogue between two parties that...
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Scrum Ceremonies vs. Scrum Meetings
A meeting is any conversation that results in a decision in order to get something done. Since the goal of the meeting is to arrive at a decision, the meeting participants stay in the meeting until they have arrived at the decision - not one second longer, not one second less....
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What is Teamicide?
You ever wonder if organizations even want teams at all? I hear a lot of people in business talk all about the importance of team empowerment and how teams are vital to the business. Then I watch what they do. At times business act in ways that positively diminish the impact...
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