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Agile Transition

Gaming Velocity

TL; DR: Gaming Velocity Imagine your team’s line manager insists that a successful team improves velocity regularly. How could you,…

Agile Teams as Investors: A Deeper Dive into Maximizing Organizational Value

TL; DR: Agile Teams as Investors Stakeholders often regard Scrum and other agile teams as cost centers, primarily focused on…

The Meta-Retrospective — Check Out the Free Miroverse Template

TL; DR: The Meta-Retrospective The Meta-Retrospective is an excellent exercise to foster collaboration within the extended team, create a shared…

Help Create the Anti-Patterns Canvas

TL; DR: Introducing the “Anti-Patterns Canvas” Join me in developing the Anti-Patterns Canvas, a dynamic and free tool that extends…

The Top Three System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how outdated organizational structures manifest themselves in system-level Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily…

“Agile” Does Not Work for You? Tackling Fake Agility with Johanna Rothman at the 59th Hands-on Agile Meetup

TL; DR: Tackling Fake Agility with Johanna Rothman Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum.…

How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders and What You Can Do About It

TL; DR: How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders In this article, we uncover typical ways in which Scrum teams fail stakeholders,…

Sprint Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly…

Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile…

Agile Laws: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson to Occam’s Razor

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and…