Scrum is made up of Influencers, Entrepreneurs, and Makers
In the empirical world, we have 3 key skill areas of accountability that are needed to effectively deliver products of the highest possible value! We need Influencers that can provide […]
Become the leader that you were meant to to be
Leadership is not about control, but about inspiring those around you. Managers transition to Leaders As organisations move towards modern management practices there will be less of a need for […]
Sprint Goal is an Immediate Tactical Goal
In the The Evidence-Based Management Guide we talk about the Intermediate Strategic Goal and I likened that to the Product Goal in the 2020 Scrum Guide. If we also think […]
Story Points & Velocity are a sign of an unsuccessful team
Story Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks […]
Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics
Gathering the metrics for Evidence-based Management in software organisations can be a strenuous task and I have a number of customers that are fretting on what to collect and from where. Here I try to create an understanding of the ‘what’ that we need to collect.
Professional Scrum teams build software that works
I am always surprised at the number of teams that release undone work to production. I understand that one may need a few sprints, or many if you inherited something […]
Update to the Scrum Guide on the 25th Anniversary of the Scrum Framework
It has been 25 years since Scrum was first created by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and it has gone through many revisions. The last major revision was in 2017 […]
Online is the new co-located
In light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to re-define co-location as we no longer need to be in the same room […]
Evolution not Transformation: This is the Inevitability of change
There is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly can’t install it. There is no end state, no optimal outcome, No best practices. We are no longer factory workers.
Luddites have no place in the modern organisation
In our Professional Agile Leadership training, we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of people to create the company that you want, […]