Blog: Agile & Business

Working Remotely – Essay 1

April 27, 2020

Everyone is talking about this topic. I will too now.  My focus is somewhat different.  I have two aims, mostly. 1. Help you (me) become better doing to get work done well. 2. Help the Team work remotely, together. *** What is our goal? I think our goal or ambition is to be able to […]

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The Crisis and Agile:  What is it? — What do we do?

April 10, 2020

This is a talk or group discussion I want to have soon.  See what you think. My goals are two: To help in general, and to help get us all get back to work, which I think is very valuable about now.  (Reasonably safely, of course.)  But we have several impediments. You see above the […]

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Laws of physics – Stephen Hawking

March 26, 2020

“No matter how many times the result of experiments agree with the theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.” This was posted on LinkedIn as a quote from Stephen Hawking. I have not confirmed that.  I have guessed that Hawking said that about the “laws” […]

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Scrum Resources I recommend.

March 26, 2020

There are many Scrum and Agile resources.  What do you need now? I have written one, which is called “A Scrum Introduction”.  Look under “resources” on www.LeanAgileTraining.com. Here’s one, also listed under Resources, that I strongly recommend today.  Scrum at its core is a collection of Patterns.  So, it is in that way part of […]

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Managers and Team Members: Transparency Needed NOW

March 25, 2020

With the current state of the Coronavirus and responses to it, most knowledge workers are WFH. Prior to this, many managers could see most of the state of things just by walking around the office and talking to people.  Information and status were fairly visible. (Yes, Agile/Scrum could make things even more visible, but even […]

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Wooden’s Pyramid of Success

March 20, 2020

Mike Cohn has a wonderful weekly newsletter with advice.  Strong urge you subscribe.  See: MountainGoatSoftware.com (under the “More” option). Mike was talking about John Wooden and his UCLA basketball teams.  (And I miss March Madness this year!!) Mike also mentioned Wooden’s fairly famous (to us who know his) Pyramid of Success. Here: http://www.coachwooden.com/pyramid-of-success     […]

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Announcement: Scrum Alliance allows Online Courses

March 15, 2020

Scrum Alliance announced that it will allow, for some period of time, for virtual / online courses.  This is due to the Coronavirus. We have our first virtual course next week, that is March 17-19. And the second course on March 24-26. Our expectation is to do every course for the next two months as […]

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How to get a Full-Time SM?

February 28, 2020

Most ScrumMasters should be full-time!  (Well, ok, if you are already hyper-productive (5x-10x) AND you can stay that high with a 50% SM, god bless you, then do that!  Otherwise, it pays to have a full-time SM helping the Team get better — if you actually get better, and you can.) Below is the slide […]

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Autonomy

February 26, 2020

Do people have the right to be themselves? Do people have the right to tell the truth? Can people be themselves? Can we trust the Team to get the job done? *** Some people seem to believe that they give up their freedom as soon as they walk in the door of the company. Perhaps […]

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Information for the Survey (Feb 2020)

February 4, 2020

New Courses: Scrum Alliance has announced the Adv CSM course.  We offer the Adv CSM now, and others later.  See: https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/scrum-master-track/advanced-certified-scrummaster New Workshops: We have several new workshops, especially the Team Level-Up workshop! As a quick summary of our courses and workshops (we can send you more easily), see here: https://leanagiletraining.com/better-agile/course-information-surveymonkey-feb-2020/ You may need to […]

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