Anthony Mersino February 16, 2021 Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about agile assessment tools. Whether it is comparative agility or the AgilityHealth assessment, it seems that people want to be able to measure the relative agility of one or more of their teams. Most agile coaches that I know have developed some … Continue reading An Assessment of Modern Agile Assessment Tools
Stefan Wolpers February 9, 2021 TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. If your Product Backlog is … Continue reading Fixing Your Scrum: A Forensic Product Backlog Analysis (Part 1)
Sajjad Ahmad February 9, 2021 Kanban boards are a great way to visualize the workflow and track progress. They usually consist of three main panels: to do, doing, and done. There are many cards, denoting tasks, which are constantly moved from one panel to another. The goal of the Kanban board is to limit work … Continue reading Advantages of Switching to Online Kanban Boards
Susan Gilbert February 3, 2021 Today I have some project management resources to help you improve your schedule and efficiency. Here’s four links with tips and tricks to kick start your work week. Growing a small business can easily get off track in your schedule as you add new clients and team members. By organizing … Continue reading 4 Project Management Tools That Will Help You Have an Effective Business
Anthony Mersino January 27, 2021 Between Santa Claus, Big Foot and the Agile Project Manager, which exists? Few people argue for the existence of Big Foot or Santa Claus, though most believe that Agile Project Managers exist. I would contend that none of them exist, especially the Agile project manager. (BTW we used a photo … Continue reading The Myth of the Agile Project Manager
Stefan Wolpers January 27, 2021 TL; DR: Scrum Master Job — 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients Are you considering a new Scrum Master job? However, you are not sure that it is the right organization? Don’t worry; there are four steps of proactive research to identify suitable employers or clients for Scrum … Continue reading The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients
Stefan Wolpers January 14, 2021 TL; DR: Scrum Commitments While the new Scrum Guide is less prescriptive and more inclusive, it also ties loose ends by including elements better, namely the previously free-floating Sprint Goal and the Definition of Done with the creation of Scrum commitments. This inclusion works remarkably well in the former’s case; … Continue reading Scrum Commitments: Tying Loose Ends and Shoehorning the Definition of Done
How to avoid over-specialization and the bottle-necks it creates. Stacey Ackerman on January 13, 2021 Successful agile marketing teams have one very important thing in common — cross-functional team members that have the ability to take campaigns from strategy to execution. This allows them to stop waiting and start delivering at a much faster pace … Continue reading Why Cross-Functional Agile Teams Get Campaigns Delivered Earlier
Jonathan Crossfield January 12, 2021 It’s that time of year when people start throwing around mottos such as “New Year, new you” and announcing resolutions that will usually be completely forgotten by January 2nd. (Quitting sour gummy worms is hard, honest!) Many New Year’s resolutions fail because they’re more about “should” than “will”. I should … Continue reading Using Side Projects to Develop New Skills
Anthony Mersino January 3, 2021 I recently had a participant tell me that my Agile and Scrum Training for Teams class was 1,000% better than he expected. Which I took as a great compliment, even though I noted the hyperbole. When pressed to explain why, he said that his previous Agile or Scrum Training course … Continue reading What Makes Agile and Scrum Training Effective?
