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”
Tag: agile
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”
On The Need To Keep My Mouth Shut
We all know why we have retrospectives, right? Ultimately they’re a mechanism with which a team can reveal and discuss dysfunction whilst concurrently identifying actions that lead… Read more “On The Need To Keep My Mouth Shut”
Agile Retrospectives : The Two Way Street
A quicky: If you head over to the blog of Luis Goncalves, you’ll find a piece I wrote about learning opportunities for Scrum Masters and the like… Read more “Agile Retrospectives : The Two Way Street”
Trying #noestimates
I wrote a little something for Luis Gonçalves‘ blog. My team and I decided to try the #noestimates approach with a client. Read the article to find… Read more “Trying #noestimates”
Life Feels Better When You Have a Plan
On my walk to work each morning, I pass a bus stop sporting an advertising hoarding for Scottish Widows’ life assurance products. (The Scottish Widows mascot is… Read more “Life Feels Better When You Have a Plan”
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”
On the Agile Nature of Music Composition – Part One
How does a musical idea get born? How does agile thinking figure in the creative process?
