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 people who just came out of scrum training or reading some scrum books. While there is some truth in ...
Leaders are energy suppliers. I don't mean selling electricity, rather a supplier of mental energy for the team that they are leading. This aspect is something that a lot of people forget, especially when promoting someone to leadership position. Mental energy is important as it gives a leader ...
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 that I have discussed this last time, but I can't remember the outcome. Unfortunately your feelings ...
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 this rings very true especially for a leader who wanted to create great culture in our ...
The term product pivot is something that I think has been interpreted quite wrongly by a lot of individuals who doesn't understand lean and agile. Countless times I heard that being agile means being able to chop and change product in development in any given time, in the name of "pivot". I think ...
Whenever I hear this question "what is agile?" there are 2 things that came into my mind. The technical explanation and the longer philosophical explanation. Technical Explanation Agile is basically an umbrella or a parent term of many other agile methodologies such as scrum, xp, kanban, crystal, ...
Isn't it a lovely laptop up there? Pretty cool for a gadget from the early 90s I'd say. So what's the deal with the old gadget photo you ask? Well, today I want to talk about culture of countinuous delivery. This is because there a lot of people who ask or misunderstand the ...
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 they are simply jack of all trades, master of none. I think the real answer is really it depends on ...
