From November 2016, we’ll be running Certified Scrum Master courses in the Thames Valley (the first one is in Reading) Hang on! Haven’t I always said that experience is more important than certification?! I still believe that … so I’ve teamed up with one of the best trainers in the… Read More »CSM course in Reading
We are starting a new series of posts where we interview interesting people (sometimes loosely) related to our agile and lean world. First off is Liz Keogh, Lean/Agile consultant, hard-core BDDer, speaker, blogger, poet, fantasy author, pattern hunter, complexity thinker, Londoner and unrepentant Goth. S&K: Explain what you do in one… Read More »Interview with Liz Keogh
“Why do we need a framework to scale agile? What does scaling agile even mean? Is it just another money-making scheme? Is it just a vehicle for Leffingwell to make a name for himself?” These were the kind of comments I started making back in 2013 when I first heard of… Read More »SAFe
Inspiration sometimes comes from unlikely places. Last weekend, I took my children to the Story Museum in Oxford for a reading of The BFG (by the amazing stage actor Anthony Pedley). Anyone with children will know what happens after any such event: there is an obligatory trip to the gift… Read More »Down with the kids
feedback loopn. a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system When I agreed to run a discussion group on feedback loops, I thought that it would be easy: everyone thinks of the same few feedback loops, right? Wrong. Firstly, if you try to… Read More »Feedback loops
Distributed – adj. Dispersed through a space or over an area; spread; scattered. ~ Dictionary.com Most people agree that teams often work better if they sit together. I like the osmotic sharing of information that it gives. I like the camaraderie that it brings. I like the team spirit that… Read More »Distributed teams
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” ∼ The Prime Directive Originating from Norman L. Kerth’s book, Project Retrospectives: A… Read More »What is the Prime Directive?
Over the years, you have heard a lot about our experiences … so now it’s your turn: we are going to run a couple of new series looking at what is happening in your teams and organisations. The first is titled ‘Talk the board’ (in a nod to the stand-up… Read More »It’s all about you
We have finally finished our first book! “Scrum 101: the most frequently asked questions about Agile with Scrum” in now available to buy on LeanPub. Why did we write a book? I was finding that the same questions were cropping up during training sessions and talks that I was giving on… Read More »New book release
This week’s blog post is an excerpt from our newly released book, Scrum 101:the most frequently asked questions about Agile with Scrum, which is available on LeanPub. There are five Scrum values: Commitment The Scrum Guide™ requires that “People personally commit to achieving the goals of the Scrum Team.” This… Read More »Changes to The Scrum Guide
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