Agile with Families
Being a Scrum Master, I decided to introduce some Agile practices into our home three years ago when our children were seven and four years old. My mornings used to be complete chaos and I wanted...
View Article3 Key Skills for Servant Leaders
Servant Leadership is a big buzzword these days. Everyone knows Scrum Masters and agile managers need to be servant leaders, but often it’s difficult to describe what that means, and what skills you...
View ArticleConference Thoughts
This week I attended an Agile Conference. I’m lucky enough to have attended many of these over the last 6 years. Some were amazing and some were lacking. As someone who has organised a conference...
View ArticleUsable software over working software – Guest Post
There are common practices I use every day. As part of my toolkit I spend a lot of time and effort on ‘Trying new ways of doing things’ and ‘Asking questions when I do not understand something’. These...
View ArticleFinal retrospective for a team
Usually a retrospective is to look at the past and then think of a way to improve your team’s process going forward. But what if this is your team’s last sprint together? Do you have a retrospective?...
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ScrumMasters Competencies
Recently a ScrumMaster at a client of ours sent me an email asking for help in creating a list of ScrumMaster competencies to use in recruiting of ScrumMasters. I asked the ScrumMaster to send me...
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ESVP Retrospective Checkin Activity
When coaching new ScrumMasters we often get asked what people should do if teams don’t want to come to meetings like the retrospective, or standups. Our answer is usually to ask if participants are...
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Team Agreements
When helping teams get started with Scrum we recommend that they create a set of Working Agreements. These are helpful because they define what behaviour is expected by the team from it’s members....
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Agile with Families
This is a guest post by Eloise Pelser (@EloisePelser). Eloise sees herself as a survivor, mom, agile enthusiast, scrum master, writer and runner. She blogs here: https://pelsertales.wordpress.com/...
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3 Key Skills for Servant Leaders
Servant Leadership is a big buzzword these days. Everyone knows Scrum Masters and agile managers need to be servant leaders, but often it’s difficult to describe what that means, and what skills you...
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Conference Thoughts
This week I attended an Agile Conference. I’m lucky enough to have attended many of these over the last 6 years. Some were amazing and some were lacking. As someone who has organised a conference...
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Usable software over working software – Guest Post
This is a guest post by Yanto Hesseling (@YantoHesseling). Yanto Hesseling is an agile quality consultant and coach for agile teams. He is the founder of AgileHubNoord, an agile community based in the...
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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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