Transparency is damn misunderstood by many!
? Transparency doesn’t mean that management can see everything the team does. Transparency means: ? The team can see everything management does. ? The team can see everything...
Agile coaching and Scrum
Practical guidance for Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, facilitators, and teams.
A sprint review or system demo without stakeholders is useless.
How many times have you seen sprint reviews without stakeholders? I must admit, I have seen this far too often in my life. And it’s a waste of time! Why is it useless? First w...
Leadership is a relationship ?
Leadership is not something one person does! It’s a relationship between leader and follower. A leader without a follower is not a leader. If you want to be a great leader, ask...
Agility is NOT what many companies move towards with their transformation
The meme shows a typical evasive move commonly camouflaged as “Agile Transformation“. Sometimes it‘s a deliberate evasion technique, sometimes it‘s subconscious. What makes you...
The simple 7-step guide for awesome Retrospectives ?
Retrospectives often end up as “letting off steam” or “endlessly discussing problems” events. That’s not helpful. Retros should help a team continuously improve! They should fee...
Want faster time-to-market? Increase your decision-making speed!
Want faster time-to-market? Increase your decision-making speed! Many delays in building products come from long decision-making processes. In this time and age, hardly any com...
From Explosions To Success: How Some Leaders' Approach To Failure Fuels Innovation
I know many leaders who wouldn’t have congratulated their people on the explosion of a big project on launch day. The quality of good leadership is to recognize your role and y...
Without a goal, Sprint Plannings are wasted time ?
Sprints need a goal! Just handing out unconnected stories to developers is NOT agile. Product Owners are not only responsible to create and have a product vision, they’re also ...
Almost done – how to ruin your agility with unfinished user stories at the end of a sprint in Scrum!
What to do with an almost finished story at the end of the sprint? Finish it? Carry it over? Put it back? Count 90% of the story points? 100%? 0%? We cannot predict the future....
Agile Team Rehearsals: Proven Tactics to Boost Efficiency and Collaboration
““An important success factor for bands are rehearsals and sound checks to deliver a good performance. How do agile project teams “rehearse”?”” This was a wonderful question fr...
Top Reasons Agile Transformations Fail (and How to Avoid Them)
So many companies struggle with their move to agility – why is that? Chances are you know or are part of a company whose agile transformation got stuck half-way and failed to d...
Scrum vs Kanban
“Don‘t fret too much over the right agile framework for your company. Focus on an agile culture instead. Establishing an agile culture is the key to success. Without it, none of...
Is Scrum a too rigid framework?
Countless teams have moaned over Scrum being too rigid and not really suited for their particular domain. As an agile coach responsible for countless agile transitions I strongl...
"We tried Scrum and it didn't work"
I hear this statement a lot recently. Companies claiming they tried to do Scrum, but even after a year or more it didn’t work for them. I disagree – let me tell you why. Scrum ...
Understand Sprint Burn-Down Patterns
A Scrum team can learn a lot form sprint burn-down charts. I want to help you recognize typical patterns, understand what causes problems and how to resolve these issues. For co...
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