How Scrum Masters can Help Teams Self-Organize | The Agile Management Blog
How Scrum Masters can Help Teams Self-Organize | The Agile Management Blog. Great advice on a few techniques ScrumMasters can use to facilitate self-organization.
View ArticleCitizenship over Leadership
Tobias had another good post over on his Business Craftsmanship blog. He talks a bit about the concept of citizenship, which from my understanding of what he wrote really boils down to accountability...
View ArticleMy Sprint is too Short!
Good post over on the Agile Business Change Blog by Stan Wade about a very common problem: Teams continue to fail to get stories done in a single sprint and by default believe that their sprint is too...
View ArticleAgile, Motivation, and the Kohler Effect
This is a great article over on Illustrated Agile about agile teams and the Kohler Effect. It gives some thoughts and advice on how you can build agile teams to take advantage of the Kohler Effect...
View ArticleBuild Projects around Motivated Inviduals
If you didn’t know, in addition to the 4 values of the agile manifesto, there are also 12 principles behind the agile manifesto. I myself think the 12 principles are much more useful than the 4 values...
View ArticleRefactoring the Daily Standup
Are your daily standups getting dull and boring? Do you tend to get off track? Does everyone truly know the status of the stories in the sprint once the standup is done? If any of these are true,...
View ArticleA Manager’s Guide to Attending Agile Team Events
Good advice for an agile manager! I think the most important advice an agile manager can follow is trust the team. You have to allow the team to self organize. They have to figure out how to work...
View ArticlePlacing Rules on Self-Organizing Teams
Good read over on Mike Cohn’s blog about dictating rules to agile teams. Yes, it’s perfectly fine for leaders to place rules on self-organizing teams. We give teams boundaries, and that is fine. You...
View ArticleMaking Sure They Do It the “Right Way” -LeadingAgile
“How do I know they are going to do it the right way?” The question came from someone who was moving out of the role of lead developer into a Product Owner role. The short answer, “You don’t. You have...
View ArticleEmpathy Driven Development: Rescuing Value from the Bermuda Triangle | The...
Empathy Driven Development An approach to developing software that relies on team members making decisions based on empathy towards impacted stakeholders. Source: Empathy Driven Development: Rescuing...
View ArticleWhat Do Managers Control in Agile? | Agile Answer Man
A manager on an agile project controls empowerment, which drives how much and how fast value is delivered to an organization. Every design review meeting, status report, security assessment, dashboard,...
View ArticleWhy Physical Task Boards Still Matter -LeadingAgile
while counter intuitive and seeming to cause more work, having a physical task board in addition to your online tool can be a big boost on your way to becoming a high performing agile team. Source: Why...
View ArticleLocking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System – Not Really…| Paul Boos
The complicated-ordered process thrown on a simple-complex team yields a complicated-complex result. This isn’t achieving what we wanted… Source: Locking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System –...
View ArticleScrumMaster: Servant Leader or Secretary? | The Agile Management Blog
In Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses, many Scrum myths are busted. One such myth is that the ScrumMaster is somehow an administrative assistant to a development team, to a product owner or to an...
View ArticleWhat’s a Scrum Master Do When a Team Member is Not Performing? | Agile Answer...
Scrum Masters are in a position of servant leadership. We are tasked with managing the scrum process, not the team members. We are coaches, not task masters. Source: [QUESTION] What’s a Scrum Master Do...
View ArticleMisconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams | Esther Derby
Self-organizing teams are not teams gone mad. Like all teams, they need a compelling goal, skills, information, and enough time to form and perform. And they still need managers to create a supportive...
View ArticleThe Peer-To-Peer Bonus System
In a business that depends on collaboration, you should receive your bonus from your colleagues (not from your manager) with a peer-to-peer bonus system. Source: The Peer-To-Peer Bonus System This is a...
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