Crash course on open(ing) questions
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. […]
A Mentoring Wheel
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
A Scrum Master mentoring experiment
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
Distributed 2020 and my thoughts on online collaboration
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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COVID19 chronicles: knowledge workers in and Agile
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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Toying with the 8 Stances of a Scrum Master
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
Systems Thinking 101: The What and the Why
* 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
The 5 stages of a retrospective
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
Retrospectives are not Postmortems
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
Stay away from Vanity metrics
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