I have recently posted my first game to TastyCupCakes.org, the Scrum Roles and Responsibilities game.This is a game that I have used many, many in my Scrum training courses. I have found it is a great way to help trainees…
Planning Poker is a simple exercise that delivers outstanding results when performed well. It can quickly lead the team to a shared understanding of the work and an accurate estimate of the size of the work. However I often see…
Project Retrospectives tend to be high stakes, emotionally charged, cross teams events, with managers in attendance. This all adds up to an environment that is not ‘Safe to Fail’ as you would expect in a typical Sprint Retrospective. While my Top Tips…
“The agile manager’s scariest move; handing over responsibility”Once we* had our Delivery Teams regularly delivering increments of valuable working software; the management team made the tough call of pushing the responsibility for co-ordination of releases to the Delivery Teams. This…
In my coaching work, I find that any effort I put into coaching Scrum Masters pays itself back many times over. The Scrum Master is able to take their improved knowledge and apply it to their team which has a…
In summary it should be focused on what you hear not on what you say.We recognised that communication with staff during an agile transition was important for two reasons; firstly so that the transition changes would be understood and accepted.…