Most teams starting out with Scrum understand their backlog and what we called planned work. This is work that everyone grooms together and fully understands.… Read More »Interuptions, Support, Business as usual – how do these work in scrum
Welcome to Agile Hotline! One of the Scrum Master’s we coach often calls us with problems he is dealing with. He joked that we should… Read More »Agile Hotline – Dealing with command and control
Most great leaders are calm and take things in their stride. Rarely are they seen running around like headless chickens. Yet, most managers seem to… Read More »Being Proactive vs Reactive
Here is a technique to handle what to do when an important member of your team is away for a long time. Generally you know… Read More »Planning Forward – What to do when a team member is away
We are coaching at a new client, helping them transition to Scrum. As a result we have a group of totally new ScrumMasters. Any new… Read More »What should a new ScrumMaster be doing?
A few years ago I was introduced to the concept of bodystorming. Basically this is acting out in person how a product might be used… Read More »Architectural Bodystorming
Do you or your organisation suffer from meetingism? Like alcoholism is an addiction to alcohol, meetingism is an addiction to meetings. Not sure? Take a… Read More »Meetingism – Addiction to Meetings
You are the Scrum Master of a team that is doing scrum. Things have been going fairly well. This time of year is tricky for… Read More »Interruptions in Scrum
I’m writing this post in Word, because my internet connection is down. After spending the last hour trying to restart routers and connect to different… Read More »Sharpening your Pencil or Shaving Yaks?
Although we often focus on the soft skills required to be agile, technical excellence is also a necessity. To me continuous integration is at the… Read More »How healthy is your build process?