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Throwback Thursday: AgileQuestions 2011
What Is Scrum?
What Is Kanban?
Someone Made Up ‘SDLC’ And Everyone Went Along With It
Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying
I am a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org
As I write this, there are 46 people worldwide authorized by the authors of The Kanban Guide to deliver Professional Kanban courses. I am…
A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern
Antipattern: A pattern that may be commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in practice. A few years ago, I was hired…
Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes
Dear software development manager, Excellent software teams can deploy code multiple times per day. Deploying code multiple times per day…
No Longer Tolerate ‘Blocked’ or ‘Waiting’ States
Empowerment Retro
Team Retrospective — “Feeding the Machine for Corporate Review Season”
An Agile Not-for-Profit Organization
Certification Path for UX Leads
Starting with APS (Applying Professional Scrum), a crash-course in iterative & incremental product development with self-organizing teams, a…
Certification Path for Testers
Starting with APS (Applying Professional Scrum), a crash-course in iterative & incremental product development with self-organizing teams, a…
Certification Path for Solutions Architects
What Is a Solutions Architect (SA)? In my experience, Solutions Architect is a job title applied to one of these two roles: A developer…
Certification Path for Scrum Masters
Great Scrum Masters have a well-developed interpersonal intelligence (an eye for team dynamics), excellent group-facilitation skills, broad…
Certifications: “If I Were You…”
Considerations for Individuals — My Advice When people ask me about training and certification, the conversation often goes like this: “…
Certification & Training Paths for Agile Practitioners
“Can we use Scrum with ‘remote’ staff?”
Does Your Team Produce ‘Bugs’?
Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams
Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!
I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org
The Art of Agile Product Documentation
A Workshop Facilitation Guide This sense-making workshop helps teach a team how to simplify valuable documentation and reduce wasteful…
Looking for Work as a Scrum Master? Choose Wisely.
It appears to me there are more jobs available for Scrum Masters than ever before! Why is it so hard for some people to find employment…
Canada’s Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe
What is the Phoenix Pay System? The Phoenix system is one of Canada’s most amazing blunders. It’s a multi-billion dollar failed project. In…
A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work
A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle…
A Week in the Life of a Scrum Team
A Workshop Facilitation Guide The purposes of this activity are twofold: To illustrate a few of the many real challenges that Scrum Masters…
A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch
Warning: Your competitors are not the patient type. One of the most common pitfalls I see in companies trying to employ Agile practices is…