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What Is a High-Performing Agile Team?

How to build and sustain a Scrum team that exceeds the sum of its parts.

What Does Scrum Mean by Cross Functional Teams?

What exactly does cross functional mean and why does it matter?

Announcing Agile NFTs

Finally–agile NFTs are here. Check them out before they’re gone.

How Implementation Intentions Help My Sprints

Planning an exact time to do something within a sprint helps make sure you get the important stuff done.

How to Create Self-Sufficient Scrum Teams

As a veteran parent now with two teenage daughters, I can tell you that one of our goals has always been to…

My Favorite Hard Questions to Ask When Making a Decision

Asking hard questions is a great way to confirm the right decision is being made.

Retrospecting with a Quiet Team

How to run a Retrospective when your team won't talk.

My Most Popular Posts of 2021

Here are my top ten blog posts from last year based on comments and views.

Dependencies Are Killing Your Agile Flow at Scale

How do you squeeze out the waste and get the most significant improvement in flow at scale?

Automatically Triangulating Estimates in Planning Poker

Triangulating estimates happens when teams compare a current estimate against two existing estimates, one smaller and one larger. Learn how to do this manually and automatically.

The Five Possible Estimates and Which One Your Team Should Use

Unless team members have discussed it, they are almost certainly providing different types of estimates.

The Product Owner’s Second Team

Successful product owners will see their stakeholders as a team, not merely a set of individuals.

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