Coaching is a whole discipline with its body of knowledge. But these days it is being borrowed as a sought-after skill that most companies ask from their managers and leaders. […]
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In the past few years I have been heavily investing in mentoring, both on the giver and on the receiver end. The thing with mentoring is its ability to insert
In the Agile Tour Montreal 2020 I had the pleasure of introducing the model I have been using to up-skill Scrum Masters with 100% of success. It is a model
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What it is I was really excited to attend Distributed 2020, an online conference about remote and distributed work life. It ran from October 13th to 15th and it was
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2020 was the year of COVID19 in most of the world, when most countries went on quarantine and people who are knowledge workers were forced to work from home. People
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For a while I was really obsessed with Barry Overeem’s work. His 28 characteristics of a Great Scrum Master helped me a lot in my journey to perfecting my craft
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* Note: since first publishing the article I made a few changes recently to clarify some of the language in it. The What For a long time now I have
Systems Thinking 101: The What and the Why Read More »
Everyone who worked with me know of my strong appreciation for retrospectives. It does not matter if a team is running on Scrum, I think this is a practice for
The 5 stages of a retrospective Read More »
Postmortem is a Latin vernacular meaning after death. It originated on the medical field and is the technique or public inquiry to investigate a dead body and determine its cause
Retrospectives are not Postmortems Read More »
Continuous improvement is a term we hear often when referring to Agile teams and Agile product development. It is in the DNA of the agile movement and just as present
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