We have noticed that interest in the Kanban Method has been growing steadily over the years. We have always resisted creating a Kanban-focused bootcamp because we feel that it is difficult to give a one-approach-fits-all summary of Kanban; we much prefer a tailor-made approach through coaching. However, some of our… Read More »New 1-day Kanban bootcamp
In June 2014, I spent a fantastic few days on a coaching retreat. We organised ourselves into groups on the Sunday afternoon, then spent the next two days focusing on how to provide support for new and/or lone Scrum Masters.* I’m delighted to announce that this year’s Scrum Alliance Scrum Coaching… Read More »London Scrum Coaching Retreat 2018
We know that getting back into the swing of work can be tough. So we’ve created an Agile-themed crossword to get your brain working again. Once you have completed the crossword, rearrange the ten yellow letters to form a word and send it to [email protected] for your chance to win… Read More »Our 2018 new year quiz
In November 2013, I had the idea of writing a book. The book would be in a Q&A format, based on the questions that attendees had asked us during our Scrum training sessions. We’d been training colleagues within our company, and running public courses at General Assembly, for a number… Read More »Our book … now on Amazon
I can’t stand a boring retro. Doesn’t the thought of another session of happy face, sad face makes you want to pull the duvet over your head and snooze the alarm clock? So, whenever I’m working with a team, I try not to run the same retro format twice. Sometimes… Read More »Snakes & ladders
I spend most of my time talking to people about identifying bottlenecks in their system so they can improve the flow of work passing through it. It doesn’t matter whether it is building software, creating physical tools, or writing policy within government. However, a recent article about a theme park… Read More »Please don’t reduce my queue
What’s your favourite business-focused book? Someone asked me this the other day. Although I considered Dan Pink’s Drive, Cialdini’s Influence, Duckworth’s Grit, Hubbard’s How to Measure Anything and a raft of others, it had to be Goldratt’s The Goal. Now it’s in graphic form! The book, first published in 1984, was not just… Read More »The Goal becomes graphic
I’m hooked on a new series. Despite its name, The Fix is not about drugs or an assassin, but about service design. We’re going to be talking more and more about service design on this blog soon but, to begin with, I’d direct you over to BBC Radio 4. My… Read More »The Fix
A few months ago, I saw an interesting TED talk by Susan Pinker: “The secret to living longer may be your social life”. It refers to research done by Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al “Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review” (Brigham Young Uni). Pinker tells us that Sardinia has… Read More »Proof that face-to-face communication rocks
Chances are that you aced your CSM test (if you went on the 2-day course), but how well do you really know the Scrum Guide? I’m not talking about how well could you implement Scrum, just how well you know what is written on the 17 pages written by Ken Schwaber… Read More »Scrum Guide quiz
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