Impediments Backlog: The Key to Overcoming Agile Obstacles
Impediments can slow down your Scrum team, or on a larger scale, block your organization’s Agile adoption. Here are four practical steps you can use to remove impediments and stay on track.
Large Scale Retrospectives: Make a Good Company Great
Regular, well-run retrospectives are critical to the ongoing improvement of an Agile team. In theory, scaling this process into an enterprise-wide activity sounds like a great idea. The reality of large scale retrospectives is quite different, however.
What’s Missing from Product Management Certification Programs?
Business leaders want a fast way to retrain and upskill their product managers so they have a common approach and philosophy for their specific business. We provide a rundown of the pros and cons of existing options, and give you our own distinctive program which meets those goals, and more.
Kanban for Remote Team Leadership
Kanban’s organizing principles and practices offer a proven and powerful framework for teams and organizations to combat the challenges of being dispersed.
Best Ways to Motivate Team Scrum Members
Stop doing things that demotivate people! Seriously...there are a lot of silly things that people are expected to endure in big companies that are severely demotivating. Almost all of Peopleware is spent identifying how common practices in software management demotivates people. If it is within your power to stop these ...
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Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant Leadership
"Scrum has been a big disappointment; a failed experiment that hasn't delivered anywhere near the positive impact that management was hoping for." Not the most uplifting quote, but Geoff Watts (@geoffcwatts) starts his book, Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant Leadership, by telling you exactly how he sees it. Geoff also ...
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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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Who Is Responsible for Quality in Scrum?
To build a quality product we need to let go of the outdated 20th century idea that quality can be achieved through inspection alone, i.e. testing. Instead, let us focus on constructing a framework that produces quality outcomes from the beginning and the two Lean concepts highlighted in this article ...
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The Many Hats of a ScrumMaster
I have been working with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents) and we were talking about possible objectives for this course, who would attend and what is missing from our current offerings that this class could provide. As we discussed these ideas ...
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