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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.

My Top 11 Posts of 2017

A summary of Mike Cohn’s most popular and engaging blog posts of 2017.

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.

Five Scary Things About Adopting Agile

Read this special Halloween post about five things in agile transitions that are can seem as scary as any ghost or zombie.

The Two Ways to Add Detail to User Stories

User stories can be deliberately vague at first but detail needs to be added eventually. There are two ways to do that. Here they are.

How Programmers and Testers (and Others) Should Collaborate on User Stories

What do the testers do at the start of a sprint when there’s nothing to test? That problem is solved through team collaboration.

Two Types of Authority Leaders Must Give to Self-Organizing Teams

How much authority must an agile team be given before it can be considered self organizing. And is self-organizing a better term than self-managing?

Why the Whole Team Should Participate When Estimating

Even though not everyone may work on a product backlog item, it’s still worth having the full team estimate. Here’s why.

Six Books for Your Summer Reading List

Six books for your summer reading list, including books on scaling, teamwork, and learning what agile is. I’ve even included a book with communication tips from a hostage negotiator. (Really.)

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