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Sketchnote: 10 Aha Moments from Working at Spotify
Justin Kotze relocated last year from Cape Town to Stockholm to become an Agile Coach at Spotify. On a recent trip home he shared his top 10 Aha moments so far. Here are Sam’s sketchnotes from the...
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Simple Visual Scrum Meeting Overview
We’ve been working with a new client helping them understand how Scrum will work in their environment. They are getting ready to transition their team to start sprints. To help the team keep focus on...
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The ShowMe column #agileWeeklyTip
Add a ShowMe column to your board. Bob has just completed a task. His task was to create the test case for a successful credit card transaction. He moves the task into ShowMe and finds someone on...
View ArticleTeaming – could this be the future of agile?
We all know the benefits of teams. A bunch of people who work together over long periods of time and are fairly stable. They grow together and learn together and the team is worth more than the sum of...
View ArticleFull Time Scrum Master experiment part 3 – Who’s doing the testing?
One of the biggest questions about this experiment has been ‘who’s doing the testing?’ I, as a full time tester, quit that to be the scrum master, right? And we only had the one tester on our squad. I...
View ArticleThe 12 Agile Principles. Part One.
Much is said and written about the Agile Manifesto that if I were to write about it, I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything that hasn’t been said before. There is less material out there around the 12 agile...
View ArticleThe 12 Agile Principles. Part Three.
This is the third part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 7-9. 7. “Working software is the primary measure of progress.“ Early in my...
View ArticleOath for an Agile Coach
I was browsing LinkedIn recently and came across a post by the legendary Alex Sloley where he stated that he had signed the Oath for an Agile Coach. I was curious, looked into it and decided it was...
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Nanny McPhee Returns
Nanny McPhee is one of my kids favourite films, the magical Nanny that helps really naughty children, and their parents, to understand each other and live in harmony. This blog post is about looking...
View ArticleThe Daily Scrum Stand Up
The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work. The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for...
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