David Lowe

Scrum Guide changes

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In November 2017, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland presented their revisions to The Scrum Guide™. The recording of the webinar is available on Vimeo. It is just over 55 minutes long. Here is a summary of the major changes: 1) Uses of Scrum The new Guide now has an additional… Read More »Scrum Guide changes

New 1-day Kanban bootcamp

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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

Our 2018 new year quiz

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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 quiz@scrumandkanban.co.uk for your chance to win… Read More »Our 2018 new year quiz

Our book … now on Amazon

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

Snakes & ladders

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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

The Goal becomes graphic

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

The Fix

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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