One PERSPECTIVE from real-life stories: Why a daily Scrum? (explained with a comic) The pattern of blaming Others… To help in solving some common observed dysfunctional organizational patterns, I find it relevant to share with you in a funny manner some comics inspired by real situations experienced at different working environments across the globe illustrating…
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Hello once again Agile World! Are you willing to practice an Agile Retrospective and felt the need of making things differently this time ? Well, you’re at the perfect spot! Welcome, get your coffe and join us on this lecture. We’re gonna talk about a useful Retrospective practice called “The Satisfaction histogram”. This practice is…
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Many executives do not like to give feedback because they feel uncomfortable and do not know how to provide constructive feedback. However, feedback is extremely important for the development of individuals and teams. The Management 3.0 practice “Feedback Wraps” offers a proven “recipe” for constructive, appreciative feedback. An uncomfortable situation Today is not Martin’s day.…
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If agile is also about continuously learning through continuous feedback: Agile coach or Scrum Master? Listen! Listen! Just listen! At what level are you listening? Are you building on what you listen to help the speaker to express more, uncover the unspoken, reveal heavy secrets, free their minds while they are talking to you? Are…
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As a passionate change agent, I’m always keen on how to bring happiness and high efficiency to workplaces. Recently, I was browsing the web and I found an article discussing the Google heart framework. SO What is the Google Heart Framework? The HEART framework is a set of user-centered metrics. It was developed to evaluate the…
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As we have previously seen in the Scrum Beginner’s Guide, the first and most important Scrum event is the Sprint Planning. Sprint Planning is considered the main event in a Sprint, in which the Scrum Team sets their Sprint Backlog. This Backlog determines the final objective of the Sprint. Obviously, the Scrum Team could fall…
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The Oxford Universal Dictionary defines music as, “That one of the fine arts which are concerned with the combination of sounds with a view to beauty of form and the expression of thought or feeling” (Little and Onions 1965, 1300). THE ARTIST OF THE WORKPLACE : In analogy, what if we define agile as, “That…
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The OKR (Objectives and Key Results) method is a business management technique that consists of bringing together all the team members around a common goal.
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“Going agile” kind of became the buzzword in the area of Project Management throughout the last few years. Many organizations nowadays are switching to adopt agile methodologies. Unfortunately a lot of them are doing so without knowing well what “agile “actually means. Agile is a mindset, in other words, it is a set of values…
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Hello, Agile World! Today, we’re going to talk about a great Agile development practice: The Three Amigos. It is an Agile ceremony among many, but what differentiates this one is its unique way of handling the communication gaps between the Scrum Team members. What are the 3 roles that often participate in this ceremony? The…
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