Is Agile Changing?
Whenever I get asked if Agile is changing, I ponder on how to answer. To me, the obvious answer is NO. And then I look back into 1999 and the […]
7 ideas for teams to develop customer empathy
As we are dedicating the month to the Agile Principle #1, Customer satisfaction through value, I’m answering the question from one of my subscribers: “How to make your team understand
Agile Principle #1 | Continuous value delivery
The Agile Manifesto is turning twenty-one years old this year and I figured a great celebration would be bringing a post every month on each of the Agile principles. You
Why be afraid of the word Agile?
Words were created to inform and communicate. How precise words are is what helps people to have cleaner and more complex communication. Agile is a word that says a lot
Scrum has too many meetings!
I really hear this a lot and I don’t want to sound pedantic, but I will start with my view: Scrum has zero meetings. Scrum has events. And no, this
Why Sprint Goals are key for Sprint effectiveness
Scrum has evolved over the course of 25 years, which is expected. It is a great testament to the meta inspection and adaption that it represents. With the recent evolutions,
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From Daily Standup to Daily Cafe
I already introduced in another post the importance of Cadences and Daily Standup to give the team a rhythm and a moment to synchronize. Any Agile framework will introduce this
Every Agile team should adopt #noestimates
How many story points should your team be delivering? That’s the sort of questions I heard more than enough when helping new teams. I see metrics deriving from it and
Meetings that suck? Know that facilitation is a skill
We’ve all been there: lack of participation. Or people talking over each other. Not everybody shows up. The meeting takes very long. Some of us where actually hosting the meeting
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Muda | Muri | Mura
Continuous improvement is the name we give to the practice of making sure our ways of working keep evolving, leading us to be more effective and our work to have