What A Difference A Year Can Make! About this time each year, I don my scrum master cap and visit the University of Sussex to deliver a… Read more “On Discovery Of Product Discovery”
Category: Scrum
On Being Mad, And Glad, And Sad
And no, I’m not incredibly confused nor clinically insane (although others may have a different opinion). Reveal: I love retrospectives In my early days of Scrum Mastering,… Read more “On Being Mad, And Glad, And Sad”
On My Phobia Of Sprint Planning
Yes. You heard it here first. Sprint Planning sessions fill me with fear. Like most Scrum Masters, I’ve attended many Sprint Planning sessions – for many different… Read more “On My Phobia Of Sprint Planning”
On My Love-Hate Relationship With Tools
I don’t hide the fact that, given the choice, I’d rather have my feet swapped out for frying pans, than have to use Agile “management” tools. I… Read more “On My Love-Hate Relationship With Tools”
Keeping It In The Retrospective
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” so the saying goes. Retrospectives are a well-known, but not necessarily well understood or well executed ritual from the Scrum… Read more “Keeping It In The Retrospective”
My Voice is Public
I mentioned a while back that I was interviewed by Vasco Duarte for his Scrum Master Toolbox podcast, and how nervous I was. Well, that episode is… Read more “My Voice is Public”
90 Minutes of Nerves
If you’ve been hiding under a very large rock for these past few years, then you wouldn’t have heard of the #noestimates ‘movement’. However, everyone else that… Read more “90 Minutes of Nerves”
Buses
You’re waiting for a bus. You’ve waited ages. Then four come along. Well, sometimes it feels this way when being a Scrum Master at a company whose income… Read more “Buses”
Softly, softly
I won’t deny it; I used to be a fairly aggressive chap at work. Not in a physical sense; nor in an abusive sense. Rather, I would… Read more “Softly, softly”