Lunch and Learn
We're experimenting with a new meetup - Lunch and Learn. Next week, Nilesh Makan, will be joining us at our Lunch and Learn session, talking about Courage. Scrum lists five core behaviours for teams and those communities that are practising scrum to adopt. These...
Guest Post: Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen
This blog post is by Nilesh Makan and one of my favourites, thanks for sharing. Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen Vanilla ice was ahead of the curve when coming up with the lyrics of Ice Ice Baby. The lyrics in the following line of the song are: “Ice is back with...
The Unmute Conference
I recently attended the Unmute conference, hosted by the Remote Coaches. It was really wonderful being able to connect with people from around the world, to share experiences and discuss remote working.
Guest Post : Strategic Agility – Strategy in the era of disruption
As parts of the world start to emerge from the pandemic, disproportionally so, we have an opportunity to learn from the past, and we have to make choices on how we move forward. Moving forward is strategy.
Preparing and Planning
Failing to plan is planning to fail. That mantra has been drilled into me for many years by many managers, and has proven somewhat useful as a habit. Sometimes however, I do fall into the trap of planning and not preparing... what's the difference? Planning is good...
Training beyond IT teams
Recently we've been training quite a few teams that do not have any link at all to software development. I thought I'd share a little about what we've changed in our training to adapt to a new context. When we designed the one day agile overview, we kept in mind the...
World Retrospective Day 2021
Yesterday was World Retrospective Day. World Retrospective Day is a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives: https://worldretrospectiveday.com/. World retrospective day started as an idea at the Retrospective...
The Prime Directive
"Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand." --Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives: A...
The 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 the Developers of the Scrum Team. To reduce complexity, it is...
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast
A few weeks ago I featured on the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast with Vasco Duarte and Yves Hanoulle. We talked about continuous improvement and the importance of learning to speak up freely as a team... Let me know what you think...
Being curious about you
2020 has been a tough year for many, myself included. This pandemic has shifted our lives completely. I haven't seen my friends in a year. I haven't met any of the people I've worked with in the past year. And the only people I've spent time with are those living in...
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 at some lessons Nanny McPhee taught and how to apply them to your...