Retrospective Facilitator’s Gathering
In May I went to Germany for the 11th annual retrospective facilitators gathering. It is a week long open space unconference focused on retrospectives. It… Read More »Retrospective Facilitator’s Gathering
In May I went to Germany for the 11th annual retrospective facilitators gathering. It is a week long open space unconference focused on retrospectives. It… Read More »Retrospective Facilitator’s Gathering
Last week I was privileged to attend the Lean Leadership Workshop by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. I would like to say thanks to Agilocity… Read More »Lean Leadership Workshop
In the last week I have had to learn a bunch of new techniques to do my day job here at Growing Agile. And the… Read More »The problem with pairing
We’ve worked in software our whole lives, and we are not strangers to overtime. In fact it seems our industry (and a few others) are… Read More »Overtime Addiction: How to Quit
Often when we first introduce people to Scrum, they respond that there are too many meetings. We think it helps to think of the Scrum… Read More »Scrum Meeting Cards (free cards)
About a month ago we posed a question via our blog: “How much is a scrum master worth?”. Below are the results, our interpretation and… Read More »The results: How much is a scrum master worth?
Everyone has some part of their job they dislike. In our recent retrospective at Growing Agile we decided it was admin. Inspired by @portiatung at… Read More »Make work fun!
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. The 12th agile principle. Buried right… Read More »Inspect and Adapt
It seems many people are very curious to see what Scrum Masters in South Africa are earning – in the last month we have been… Read More »How much is a Scrum Master worth?
Retrospectives are one of the keys to successful agile teams. The ability to reflect and identify how to improve, and then to action those improvements… Read More »The Problem Solving Tree (free exercise)