Get Kanban!
The game Get Kanban is a great way to acquaint people with the elements of Kanban in which we have scenarios, board and dice to have fun! The game is […]
Scrum Master and one on ones
When I first started as Scrum Master in 2012 I saw the role very much as a guardian of the team process. And that was all. I ignored, at first,
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Have you been using Liberating Structures?
On the second half of 2018 I was formally introduced to Liberating Structures in a meta-situation: a liberating structure in place that talked about liberating structures. It was an Agile
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The case for estimation, capacity planning and forecasting: these are not the same!
When will that be ready? It is a question we all either asked or had to answer at least once, personally or professionally. And it makes sense: we, humans, exist
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Common mistakes when coaching a new Agile team
We coaches, most of us start off with a lot of energy and expectations when approaching a new coaching relationship. New possibilities, new people, new challenges. We hope we are
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4 Common mistakes in Agile adoption
When an organization decides to adopt Agile it is tempting to select a framework and put it in place without reworking the company’s mindset. It is not uncommon to organize
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Technical debt and the Dice of Debt game
As of 2016 The Agile Alliance came up with a fun and interesting way to engage parties into taking care of technical debt as early as possible. It is called
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A few words on story points
Story Points deserve more than a short blogging post to have all techniques and pros and cons considered. Nonetheless, I think I can make a case for something short and
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On documentation
From the giant companies to the startups, if you have software development there is someone thinking about the documentation of it. Documentation of structures, of code interfaces, of feature behavior
Back to Basics – Scrum Roles
One of the pillars of Agility is to iterate. What I like about it is that you can iterate about almost anything. Your thoughts, your practices. And why not over
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