Teams

Trust Quantified, Understand the 4 Factors of Trust

In many teams, the most important component that can make or break the team is trust. This can be trust within the team itself as well as trust outside the team as well. Yet a lot of the time ...

The Show Must Go On, Sometimes We Must Persevere for What Matters

As I drove along the hundreds kilometers stretch of the Great Ocean Road, one of my favorite song by Queen was playing on my car audio. I thought that this song really rings true to anything that we ...

Pay it Forward, Let Your Development Team Invest on Self Improvements and System Improvements

In a fast moving business world these days, sometimes it can be difficult to remember that a development team may sometime need to be "off the tools". Lots and lots of people in leadership positions ...

The True North of a Retro Session

This is one of the back to basic scrum articles that I’m going to write every so often. Today I’m going to talk about the point of a retro session. A lot of the time I noticed that scrum ...

Scrum Master is the Master Unblocker

The most common perception about the role of the scrum master is that he/she is the one to unblock every blockers or impediments that the team may encounter. This is especially true for a lot of ...

Reduce Unfinished Meetings

Ever wondered why sometimes you have so many meetings and so many of them felt like "Deja Vu"? Sometimes you wondered into the meeting room and ended up thinking or talking to your self saying ...

Grounded Leaders are Great

This concept of grounded leaders is something that I loosely took away from Professor Mintzberg's session at the LAST Conference 2018 in Melbourne (it was an awesome conference by the way). I think ...

Is True Full Stack Developer a Myth?

Over the past years of working with agile teams, there have been talk and uncertainty about full stack developers. There are always opposing arguments. Some say that it's possible and some say that ...