In the last two Certified Scrum Product Owner courses that I taught, people have asked, “What’s next?” A beautiful question indeed. My answer included a path to Certified Scrum Professional that Carlton Nettleton and I have developed, a series of advanced courses that Applied Frameworks offers, and the Scaled Agile ...
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Today I am going to share with you a engaging , interactive and brief exercise I use to teach Scrum in the first twenty minutes of my Certified ScrumMaster or a basic one-day Intro to Scrum class. The game is called Buy a Framework and is based on the classic Innovation Game, Buy a Feature. ...
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She analyzes synergies, or synergizes analogies... or some such thing.—Edward Norton (as "Father Brian Finn"), Keeping the Faith. Alas, most of us have fairly rudimentary tools. Try to get some help from someone with data mining experience but let’s see what we can do without assistance. Nobody knows the data ...
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I recently came across an awesome and challenging book - Software for Your Head by Jim McCarthy. There are so many interesting things about this book. One of the key tools I discovered I can use right away while reading the book was an amazing tool to provide feedback called ...
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Right before Agile 2011, I had the opportunity to co-train a CSM course with an awesome candidate to join the ranks of Certified Scrum Trainers, Karen Greaves. One of the reasons why I was interested in training with Karen is that she has been applying many of the Training From the ...
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User stories are tool that originated from Extreme Programming and have become the de facto way Agile teams document and collect their requirements. There is a lot written on user stories (link, link, link), so I am just going to talk about what I consider important in writing good stories since I ...
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