A New (Old) Look at Backlog Refinement
I recently heard someone say “I think backlog grooming1 and sprint planning are the same thing”. I can see exactly why someone might think that. So I thought we [...]
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Agile 2017: Agile Transformation Session
It’s about 6 weeks until Agile 2017 and time is ticking to get your tickets if you haven’t. If you’re going, you may want to stop by a little session on Thursd [...]
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Scrum LEGO simulation agile game: Build a [...]
This is an agile game to use Lego blocks to build a product in teams using iterations. It can be used in companies, school, university and any place to teach agility and Scrum. [...]
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Scrum Master Quick Tips
Two weeks ago, I wrote up a post about Product Owner Quick Tips and thought it would be a good idea to follow that up with one for Scrum Masters. While Product Owners have the [...]
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Agile Conference Report - Mile High Agile
I just finished attending my favorite agile conference this year – Mile High Agile. Sponsored by Agile Denver, MHA is a medium-sized conference that still attracts outstan [...]
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Product Owner Quick Tips
When I first began my journey as an agile coach, I was focused on helping a great woman who was starting her path as a Product Owner. She had the business knowledge and a lot of [...]
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Agile With Distributed Teams
Whenever I work with companies, the question of using agile with distributed teams comes up. So much so that I presented on that topic at Mile High Agile in 2016. Part of the [...]
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Revisiting the Daily Scrum Meeting
Daily Scrum is the basis for most companies’ agile implementations. In fact, so many companies use this as the only measure of whether they’re agile or not that its [...]
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What is a Release Train Engineer?
I saw a picture tweeted by Alex Yakima with this picture of the RTE Canvas and it inspired me to talk about this role more. You can find the tweet here – https://twitter.c [...]
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Technical Spikes in Agile and Scrum
Technical spikes are a great way for teams to scope out some work that they don’t fully understand before they begin work on it. Spikes are used by teams to suss out or do [...]
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