Whenever we talk about agile teams or scrum teams we always talk about self-organizing and cross-functional teams. However, is that really enough? I think the underlying factor that we need to have for a successful team is self-sufficiency. There is a major difference between self-organizing and ...
One of the facilitation techniques that a scrum master must have is retro facilitation. Normally a scrum master would vary the retro techniques on different sessions. Most people think that this is just to keep things interesting and increase the team engagement. While there is some truth in ...
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 want to do seriously or anything that really matters. Especially this line "... inside my heart is ...
As I began writing this post, I'm wondering if the title is a bit too much. However the more I think of it its still rings true. I decided to write about this as I kept hearing for many years the great debate about those who believe that we need to estimate our work no matter what and those ...
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 such as scrum master, product manager, project manager and many more forget this. Due to factors ...
We humans are governed by our prime directives. I call them that, but they are also known as the primary values that are directing us from what we do or not. Having these values means that not all kinds of work, career or industry will be a good fit for a person. This is why sometimes a person can ...
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 practitioners simply run retro sessions without understanding the right objectives. Retro facilitation is ...
Have you ever wondered why you always come to a certain state? Have you ever wanted to change a habit, but you don't really know what to change? Today I will share with you a technique that I know will help identify these core drivers. In order to give you an understanding let's get back to the ...
