Chartering, Lift-off, Setting the Stage, From [...]
One of my favorite, old-time rock groups is Emmerson Lake and Palmer. And their song From the Beginning seemed appropriate for this article. One of my new favorite voices in our [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
What is a Scrum of Scrums?
It all started with this picture that Mike Cohn published over 10 years ago. In the explanation he briefly mentioned a hierarchal structure where multiple [...]
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3 Key Agile-centric Metrics
My friend and colleague Shaun Bradshaw and I were coaching at a client recently. We started to have a conversation around velocity, not directly driven by the clients’ context [...]
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Definition of Done – Apparently it’s [...]
I recently came across a LinkedIn group discussion related to Definition of Done. It was quite spirited, and as of Fall of 2016, it is still ongoing. As in anything, I had mixed [...]
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Bugs, Bugs, and more Bugs!
In my agile coaching and training journey, I spend a lot of time discussing a wide variety of topics. But there are themes that form a “Top 10” of topics that everyone seems [...]
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Coaching DOJO with a TWIST
I submitted a talk to the North America Scrum Gathering this year that made me a bit nervous. It was entitled – Why the World Needs More Prescriptive Agile Coaches. And I was [...]
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What a Drag!
There’s an Extreme Programming concept, tool, practice that many have forgotten. Sure, we remember user stories, refactoring, TDD, continuous integration, and pair-programming [...]
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Story Design – When, Where, and How Mu [...]
I received the following question from a colleague a few days ago: Name: Randy Raypole Subject: User story design work Message: With regards to team understanding of stories. I& [...]
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To Coach or not to Coach
I was inspired for this article by the same titled blog post from Simon Nadav Cohen that you can find here: https://labs.spotify.com/2016/05/1 [...]
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Qualities of Great Agile Coaches
I stumbled on a blog by someone I hadn’t heard before. His name is Tanner Wortham and the blog is Spikes & Stories. Here’s the link to the post: http [...]
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