Self-Organizing Teams Are Not Put Together Randomly There are things leaders can do that will influence how a team self organizes.
Ten sentences with all the Scrum Master advice you’ll ever need Want to become an even better Scrum Master? Follow these 10 easy-to-remember practices.
How to Ensure You’re Working on the Most Important Items Each Iteration Product owners often sacrifice progress toward important goals to put out short-term fires. There’s a way to stop that.
Four Quick Ways to Gain or Assess Team Consensus Agile team leaders often need to gauge or achieve consensus. Learn four of the best ways of doing that.
Defect Management by Policy: A Fast Easy Approach to Prioritizing Bug Fixes Prioritizing bug fixes has always been a challenge in software development. Even though there are fewer bugs with an agile team the short iterations still make it a challenge to prioritize…
Help Buy Scrum a Design Phase Scrum has never had a design phase. Perhaps it’s time to fix that. Here’s a humorous take on how to do that.
Include All Team Members in Sprint Meetings. Yes, Them Too. Some agile teams ban certain roles from daily scrums and retrospectives. Here’s why everyone should attend, even the most difficult product owner.
Ten Things the Beatles Taught Me About Being Agile We may think the Beatles simply sang about love, walruses and peace. But their songs actually contain profound agile lessons.
The Difference Between a Professional and an Amateur Being paid to do a job doesn’t make someone a professional. This post explains the crucial difference between an amateur and a professional.
Five Lessons I’m Thankful I Learned in my Agile Career Here are five key lessons I learned that were instrumental in my career. See if learning them could help your career, too.
The Four Reasons to Have a Consistent Sprint Length A team’s sprints should be the same length every sprint. Here are four reasons why.
