Change without authority requires influence, persistence, and strategic framing. Since Scrum Masters or Agile practitioners are often without direct authority, they must operate as change agents by leveraging their unique…
How would your Scrum team feel if asked to release on a Friday at 5 PM? Nervous? Mitch Lacey posed this question yesterday, and it really struck me. I always…
Over the years, we’ve worked with numerous banks, fintech, insurance and other financial services providers. Two things are clear: The finance and banking world is changing fast. It’s hard for…
We are walking through the three sections of Agile Leadership Training offerings from the Scrum Alliance, explaining their particulars in three separate posts to empower you to make decisions on…
We are going to walk through the three sections of Agile Leadership Training offerings from the Scrum Alliance, explaining their particulars in three separate posts to empower you to make…
I hear from teams and their managers that Test Driven Development (TDD) is taking them longer than their usual development practice. That’s not been my experience at all. But I…
Many of you are probably familiar with the Scrum Framework. The Scrum Alliance and the Scrum Framework lists all of the details for how we want development teams to work…
Kanban Distinctive A unique distinctive of Kanban is how you get started. It is unlike in other Agile methods or frameworks and is central to how you start using the…
I was reading a book last week and thought it one of the better books I hadn’t heard of from others. It made me think, “What are others reading that…