Hack Your Daily Scrum
The purpose of the Daily Scrum (or the equivalent daily team meeting in another method) is to figure out how the team will collaborate today… Read More
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Coaching Skills Are a Multiplier
If you’ve been following our work for any length of time, you know that you’re not going to get the best results from your team… Read More
Is a Definition of Ready a Good Idea?
A Definition of Ready can be a useful working agreement for a Scrum team or it can be a step away from healthy, dynamic collaboration… Read More
Getting the First 5 Minutes of a Meeting Right
Ever facilitated a meeting that just seems to keep going off the rails? Often, whether a meeting is going to feel like that or just… Read More
What to do Before an Accountability Conversation
You thought expectations were clear, but it seems they’ve dropped the ball. Now what? You know you should say something. After all, Avoidance of Accountability… Read More
Visualizing Technical Debt
Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and one of the creators of eXtreme Programming, first described technical debt in 1992 this way: Shipping first… Read More
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Archetypes of Product Ownership Gone Wrong
When the Product Owner role is going well, it’s super high-leverage. A good PO sets up a whole team to do more meaningful, valuable work. Read More
How to Give a Great Sprint Demo
Exciting. Entertaining. Do these words describe your sprint review meetings? Or are boring and unfocused more accurate? I can't believe how many times I've come in to coach a team and they've been surprised when I actually expected to see a software demo in the sprint review meeting. As the agile principle says, “Working software is the primary measure of progress.” Let's see some software! Why are so many agile teams so hesitant to do demos? Why are demos so lifeless? Sometimes, the team's not actually done. That makes a demo awkward. Other times, they can't communicate what they did to the stakeholders; they don't speak “business.” But most often, they simply don't know how to give a good demo. So, how do you give a good demo? Read on to find out »
Product Ownership as a Recession Proofing Tool
Strengthening product ownership is a key strategy for recession survival.. Economists are warning of a coming recession. No one knows how bad it will… Read More