When I finished my private pilot course a few years ago, I started flying a small plane to visit the surrounding airports. And it didn’t take long for me to start bringing my friends and colleagues with me. My confidence grew and after about a year I had the feeling, like many other novice pilots, …
What should a good scrum master be able to do? Although Scrum is clearly associated with one particular framework, in many companies Kanban is represented in tens of percent of teams, elsewhere they also use Lean Startup or parts of it, for this people learn to coach, mentor, facilitate, talk to the company management and …
Mindmap – What should a good scrum master/agile coach be able to do? Read More »
One of the basic skills of members of agile teams is the ability to give feedback to their colleagues. However, basic agile approach training usually does not provide any guidance on how to provide feedback. And so it happens that the transmission of feedback sometimes ends in the emotions of both participants or, in the …
Anyone who has ever dealt with Lean has probably encountered seven types of waste (Muda). Lean was originally created in Toyota for industrial manufacturing. That’s why it was initially harder for me to understand how I could apply this kind of waste to software production. Personally, an article on the kanbanize.com website helped me a …
It turns out that it is not uncommon for a scrum team to grow to such a size that the advantages of having a team together all the time disappear and the overhead begins to increase. We will look at how to deal with such a situation as simply as possible and avoid inconvenience in …
In a number of companies, people have recently started to fill themselves in the role of agile coaches on a large scale. For example, in connection with the Spotify “framework”, we often encounter questions about how the role of an agile coach differs from a scrum master. Is the difference between these roles really just …
In companies where we focus on agile transformations, customers often deal with how to fill the roles of product owners. The most common way to recruit future product owners is from within your own organisation. The role from which the product owner applies is different. Sometimes they are product or project managers, sometimes analysts, sometimes …
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With those shady mentoring and coaching techniques, a good scrum master can vastly improve the team performance, happiness, output quality, etc. despite not having any executive power. A “good” scrum master is a very broad term, however. What is good for you? Aaaaand this is where it gets tricky… Any senior scrum master is more …
Roleplay – A different take on a scrum master interview. Read More »
Let’s keep this short and sweet, shall we? The textbook daily scrum I noticed that the “Did this, will do that, and this bothers me” format may have some seriously annoying effects on the participants. While the level of agile maturity, team composition and culture in your company are important factors here, I believe this …
