In February 2016, we launched our workshop game, Iterative Incremental Big Bang. Although our biggest market is the United Kingdom, over 60% of sales have been shipped elsewhere in the world (as far as Canada, Vietnam, New Zealand and Russia). Our friends at ScrumTrek in Russia liked the game so… Read More »Our game … in Russian
As a Scrum Master, it’s never easy to know what a job is really going to be like before you start, but we’ve been looking out for what we think are bad smells in job offers. Please feel free to tell us your own in the comments. Job title of… Read More »Scrum Master job descriptions
There’s a man in the house in front of you. He’s tied his wife to a chair, poured petrol over her and is threatening to set her on fire. “I’ve been at work all day. When I get home, I find her [his wife] on the phone, and she refuses… Read More »How to listen like a hostage negotiator
We all know that “Individuals and interactions” are important. I believe that getting explicit agreement on how the team will work together is fundamental to a happy and performing team. One exercise I have run in various orgs, from fashion retailers to hospitals, is a simple mapping of roles but is… Read More »Role mapping
I often get asked “What makes a great product owner?” My answer used to be that the PO needs to have both: knowledge (e.g. a good understanding of the vision / needs) and authority (i.e. being able to agree the team’s direction without it being overturned by someone else). The… Read More »What makes a great Product Owner?
We often refer to the Retrospective as “the easiest meeting to run, but the hardest to do well.” So we decided to ask people what they thought made a good retrospective? What is a Retrospective? Before we get into the detail, let’s just clarify what we mean by a Retrospective.… Read More »What makes a great Retrospective?
I know it’s not all about tools (or processes), but I’m quite liking Mural right now. There’s something about the flexibility and space to allow your mind to roam. Google’s offerings (i.e. docs, sheets, slides) are all very good when you’re trying to co-create some text or create a multi-entry… Read More »Mural
“My brother got all the brains. I had to work really hard to get where I am.” ~ David Lowe, 1995 onwards That’s how I used to explain my successes. I thought I’d got the short straw at having to work much harder to get results. But it turns out that… Read More »Grit is what you need
My previous post about working like a startup mentioned the scientific method around which my favoured way of working revolves. In fact, with our small feedback loops and Bayesian planning (that is, taking new information and adjusting our plans), many agile teams are using this method without knowing it. So… Read More »What is the scientific method?
Following on from last week’s ‘What is an entrepreneur?‘ post, I thought we’d look at how to act like a startup. If you remember, a team had asked me to help them think differently. They were stuck in a rut (building something that they weren’t sure was going to solve… Read More »How to work like a startup
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