

Off-site Retrospective
This blog is NOT about distributed teams and running distributed retrospectives. This blog IS about collocated or kinda collocated teams...


Effectiveness vs. Efficiency
It's always tempting to aim for efficiency. Why wouldn't you? It doesn't make sense for people to be idle when the could be busy. Maybe...


Is your Agile Transformation a success? Prove it!
As you progress through an Agile Transformation, many people will be asking the question as to whether or not they’re better off. For...


Which Agile Management tool is best?
You already know the answer. There is no best tool. The best tool is the one that works best for you. That doesn’t mean your organization...


Relentless Improvement
Not many people have achieved 6 Championships so it's probably not easy. It likely requires hard work, dedication, attention to detail,...


Do Scrum Masters need to be technical?
Whether or not a Scrum Master has a technical background, there are going to be instances when the Scrum Master struggles to understand...


Awarding story points for fixing defects?
Let's discuss the situation where the team did not create the defect in the first place. Maybe the team inherited a system that was full...


Always Be Coaching (ABC)
As you progress through your Agile journey you may start to notice that you (consciously or unconsciously) look for ways to help fellow...


Multi Team Retrospective
Multi Team Retrospectives can be very different than individual team retrospectives. Simply put, encompassing more people introduces...


Splitting of user stories using SPIDR
When splitting user stories it can be a daunting task to get Agile teams to conform to INVEST. INVEST -Independent -Negotiable -Valuable...