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Enterprise Scrum as a Language of Choices
The purpose of Enterprise Scrum is to give organisations the ability to become more resilient i…
A Cycle for your Coaching Relationship
Any coaching conversation is only as good as the trust and intimacy of the relationship between coac…
Everyone can lead an exceptional life
You may not know who Rick Rubin is but you definitely would have heard of his music. He has been a m…
A Simple Method for Breaking down Product Backlog Items into Tasks
During Sprint Planning many teams resist breaking down Product Backlog items selected into task…
Growing Great Scrum Masters
Growing Great Scrum Masters: Agile Coaching has a big problem with the way it currently operates. A …
Enterprise Scrum and how it supports Business Agility
Currently, within the corporate universe, agility in business has become a key factor in maintaining…
The Productivity Myth
The Productivity Myth: I am often asked if using Scrum can make software developers more productive.…
What Role do Team Members Play in the Scrum Team?
Let’s get to know the different roles and responsibilities of each person in an agile developm…
Acceptance Testing
Most Agile frameworks express customer requirements using simple and lightweight methods, such as Us…
The Scrum Master beyond Technical Lead
The Scrum Master seeks to ensure that the team respects and follows the values and practices of Scru…
Premature Estimation
Don’t worry. It happens to a lot of people. Really, it doesn’t matter. But d…
How many Saturdays?
Have you ever wondered how many Saturdays you have left? If you knew, would you change the way you s…
An argument of coaches
It was another Thursday morning meeting. “Who puts in a 9 am meeting? On a Thursday?” &#…
Sprint burndown charts: Grapes of Progress or Watermelon Surprise?
In a recent discussion with an ‘Argument of Agile Coaches‘ (an apt collective noun for a…
Karim Harbott – My Journey to CEC
There are two questions that I am often asked about being a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coac…
No Framework Will Save You
No Framework Will Save You: It is often said, by those in the personal training industry, that you c…
The Road LeSS Travelled – Becoming a LeSS Trainer
When I first started working with multiple teams, I did not know where to start. Scrum is great at l…
LeSS is More
It’s the age old debate. ‘I want self-organising teams, but I need to set some constraints. I …
What’s in a Name
What’s in a Name: Over the last few years, Agile has acquired a lot of unwanted baggage. Some of tha…
A People Business
A People Business: Let’s face it: People skills is not an area in which the software development com…
Be the change you want to see in the office
Gandhi didn’t say, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” But the sentiment, whoever first ex…
Continue your professional development
We all know that many businesses — even the largest ones — have cut back on many things …
We all know what kindness is, surely?
There’s no end of well-intentioned articles about feelings and conduct on the internet. We have all …
What’s in it for you?
When starting any team, I ask a question that often shocks people in the room: What do you want to g…
Who’s responsible here?
I talk to many people about the concept of responsibility at work, especially as so few people see i…
Teams without a goal go nowhere
Have you ever been part of a work team that goes nowhere? One where everyone keeps pulling in differ…
Use your words. Carefully.
As a manager or executive, you know that people listen to you when you speak in the workplace. Part …
Who’s responsible?
It’s almost a cliché: You’re in a meeting with colleagues, discussing a particular task or project, …
Employment: making the move
If you’re a manager or executive and you’re discontented in your job, I hope that you’ve been readin…
Focusing on job satisfaction
Over the past few weeks, this blog has examined the matter of our relationships with our jobs and ho…
Balancing acts
We hear a lot about work-life balance these days. Many people struggle to keep their jobs from eatin…
Check your attitude: part 2
Check your attitude: My last blog post was long, so I’ll try to make this one more concise. The main…
Check your attitude
Check your attitude: As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the most unfortunate things about wor…
On work and happiness
I mentioned in my last post that many of us fall into our careers rather than stride deliberately al…
A plan worth having
When it comes to business, how do you know when a plan is right for you? Too often, we hear of execu…
Plans and planning
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during the Second World War and, later, Pre…
Feedback: It’s not just that buzzing noise in the background
We hear the word “feedback” used a lot in the workplace to cover a whole range of things–clien…
Decision paralysis!
Decision paralysis! Some time ago, I was attempting to help a young man to come up with a career pla…
How to visualise a team’s thinking on a spider’s web
A few years ago I found myself sitting on a train reading Bramble Bushes in a Thicket. One of the th…
Colour in Facilitation
At the Retrospective Facilitator’s Gathering in Fladungen, Linda Rising proposed a sessio…
The value of pennies
Something that I have talked about in the past, but recently it has come back home how alien my thin…
Letting go in retrospectives
When I ran my first retrospectives, I was anxious. I planned meticulously. I tried to anticipate wha…
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