The ScrumMaster Skeleton
Last week (9 – 11 February 2015 we attended the Scrum Coach Retreat in South Africa. Sam found herself in a group that was focussed… Read More »The ScrumMaster Skeleton
Last week (9 – 11 February 2015 we attended the Scrum Coach Retreat in South Africa. Sam found herself in a group that was focussed… Read More »The ScrumMaster Skeleton
How often do you get to the end of the week or month at work and wonder what you have achieved? Day to day reactive work can easily eat away all your time. The best way to counter-act this is to have a plan and make it visible. That way you can constantly be reminded of what you should be focusing on. This simple one page template is quick and easy to fill out, and will help keep you on track during the month. You can use this template for yourself or for your team. In fact you could use the template for a retrospective action.
This month Karen and I were lucky enough to have 2 unplanned sessions with a group of other coaches. It was so great to talk… Read More »A Coaching Experiment
I was asked at 9pm on Monday night (whilst having drinks in the bar…) to deliver the closing keynote at the South African Scrum Gathering… Read More »Closing Keynote
The most important thing a Product Owner needs to do is say NO. If they don’t it results in a huge backlog with lots of items,… Read More »Product Owner Decision Making
Something has started to happen in the agile community. Something that makes me sad, so I wanted to write about it. More and more I… Read More »Agile Bullies
We often coach Product Owners. One of the things we’ve come to realise over time is that 2 day theoretical courses out of the office… Read More »A handy guide for coaching Product Owners
A tweet yesterday by a client got me to write this post. Here is Maritza’s tweet and a few others we shared. Over the… Read More »Agile Manager? What does that mean?
We are happy and excited to announce our Coach’s Guide Series! This series provides a collection of training and workshop plans for a variety of agile… Read More »The Coach’s Guide Series
Anyone who has been trained by us or coached by us has heard this statement. I’m not sure if we stole it from someone else… Read More »You do it, you own it.