How can we make our meetings productive. This is a billion-dollar question. Even if each one of us improve our meetings by 1% we save $$$ s for our organizations. In this article, we look […]
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How much of Agile is too much?
Many years ago, by which I mean 1996, I got attracted to something called Extreme Programming. I loved the fact that we could work in small teams, created tested products. People like Martin Fowler, Uncle […]
What is the role of HR in the Success of an employee in an Agile Organization?
In Organizations that practice Agility, there is a growing need now to reimagine the role of HR. In this article, we see just from an employees perspective areas when HR interacts with an employee during […]
Can Agile work for Infrastructure and Ops Groups?
Yes. Agile can work with Infra and ops groups. This article outlines some basic principles during your agile transformation journey. When an organization gets more and more Agile soon they realize that one of their […]
Scrum Essentials
What is Scrum? Role: Scrum Product Owner Role: ScrumMaster Role: Team Artifact: Working Agreement? Artifact: Product Backlog Artifact: Sprint Backlog Artifact: Definition of done? Artifact: Definition of ready? Event: Sprint Planning Defined What is the […]
What is Sprint Planning?
Why Sprint Planning: Remember is Scrum we work in baby steps. Sprint Planning is the event where we plan what we can achieve as a Scrum Team in Two weeks. We need all members of […]
Paper Plane Game
Purpose: To demonstrate the power of time-box or Sprint that makes the heartbeat of an agile framework like Scrum. Type: Team Game Time Needed: 45 minutes Number of people per team: 6 Supplies Needed: Used […]
Unlike Monopoly – The Best Scrum Simulation Game for Workshops
Overview: I have been teaching Agile workshops since 2007. I have experimented with various games over the years. In 2014 or so I modified the Scrum Simulation game which I do in day 2 of […]
Meetings – From Hell – Part 1
If you take any average size company meetings are a given. Be definItion ( dictionary.com ) a meeting is an assembly of people, especially the members of a society or committee, for discussion or entertainment […]
Agile Metrics
This article presents guidelines and examples of metrics you as a leader can help set for the group or team It is really important that an organization does not measure only to demonstrate to others […]
