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This is the first in a series of blog posts that cover four domains that are important for Agile Coaches to understand, and furthermore…

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You might ask: "What is my Agile Coaching Journey? " Many of us have asked ourselves this very question as potential, budding and current Scrum Masters and Agile coaches! What do we do next? How do I start? Which is my best best?

Find out how you will benefit as a Scrum product owner form having an effective Scrum Master working with you.

It’s finally here. What’s here, you might ask? My new book. Cool! What’s the title? Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond About the Book The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. That’s because of a number of factors, includ

Real agility helps us achieve important outcomes faster. Speed (or quickness, if you prefer) and grace are part of the definition of agile…

Learn more about agile management anti-patterns an aspiring servant leader should avoid during an organization’s transition—Age-of-Product.com #Agileantipatterns #agiletransition #Management

Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.

An agile maturity assessment can help teams come to a common understanding of what agile maturity looks like and what steps they can take to get there. In this article, we are going to dive into the value of assessing things, with concrete examples you can use, and will help you learn how to build an assessment for your teams and/or organization that is fit-for-purpose.

In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to technical debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide some specific advice for you to be inspired.

Liberating Structures fundamentally changed the way I work, and they are helping me becoming successful as Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Liberating Structures are a set of patterns, that allows a g…

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Aino Corry about common retrospective antipatterns and how to overcome them.

A common problem among the scrum teams that I coach is user stories that are too big. When a user story is too big, it is hard understand, estimate, and implement. So what is a good size for a user story? My guidance is that the user stories at the top of the product backlog should be sized such that the scrum team could easily complete four to six stories a week. When a team’s user stories are smaller, they complete stories more frequently. This is good on many levels. Each time a story is completed the team has delivered value, which is what the business pays us to do.

Agile and Scrum teams need more than gift baskets this holiday season. Learn what they really want from Scrum Masters, product owners, and managers.

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My personal journey as a Scrum Master and recommendations for new Scrum Masters

As an Agile Coach or a Scrum Master, I am sure you are aware of the journey of a change agent. There are multiple approaches to achieve this journey. Having said that, we at Agilemania are trying to explore the possibility of introducing some of the significant concepts which might help the Agile Coaches or Scrum Masters. These concepts aid in making the journey a little easier to be an effective change agent. In this aspect, we are happy to launch this one-day workshop with Liberating Structures along with brain-based learning models. Why this combination?

Kære leder. Denne episode er til dig. Vi har et budskab. Vi ser det alt for tit: To teams til én Scrum Master. En junior-Scrum Master. En deltids-Scrum Master. Scrum Master-rollen bliver undervurderet og spredt alt for tyndt ud. I denne episode plæderer Ole og Katrine for Scrum Master-TANDSMØR. Jo

This article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact—Age-of-Product.com. #DevelopmentTeam #Scrumantipatterns

On September 27th I provided a presentation at the Agile Leadership Day (ALD) in Zurich, Switzerland. The topic of my presentation was “The Scrum Master as the Change Leader“. In the weeks before the presentation I already promoted the topic by which I caused quite a few questions/comments. Not wanting to spoil my key message, I promised to explain the title afterwards. So here it is, the blog post in which I’ll explain my view on the Scrum Master as the change leader. Let me start with a confession. My original title was “The Scrum Master as a Change Agent”.

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

Agile Failure: Why Agile is not succeeding in some organizations. Patterns, reasons and what you can do to prevent this from happening. #Agileantipatterns #Agilefailure #agiletransition

Help your teams develop new capabilities Use the Agile Fluency Diagnostic to understand how your teams are progressing and what you can do to help them. The Diagnostic is a facilitated self-assessment conducted by experienced agile coaches. You can either work with a licensed facilitator or become licensed to conduct the Diagnostic yourself. The Diagnostic Process Determine Goals The Diagnostic starts with you and your facilitator discussing your organizational goals and, based on those goals, which Agile Fluency Zones are the best fit for your teams.

Linkin Leadership Approach and Engagement by examining David Marquet and Dan Pink's work. Intent, Due Diligence, Mission, = Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose

Sometimes, a team find themselves working towards a fixed deadline in time for a specific release or deliverable. As a compliment to a Release Burndown (or Burnup) you can do a weekly confidence vo…

Look at the top of your backlog, i.e. the predictions of your upcoming work for the next few months. Which skills do you see that you need to have in the team to be cross-functional enough to deliv…

Is there a fire in production? Put on the firefighting helmets and head out to fight it! Sometimes (hopefully quite seldom) the heat goes up and you need to abandon daily routines and WIP-limits to…

Agile adoption is not always a smooth transition. Learn the five phases of agile adoption and how an Agile coach helps your team survive and win.

Learn six things a Scrum Master should do for the team, from explaining boundaries of self organization to creating safety around estimates/mistakes.

Dear network, The end of 2019 will also mark the end of my engagement at agile42. I have had almost eight years as Agile Coach and Country Manager of ... 42 comments on LinkedIn

As an Agile coach, I have helped many teams improve their effectiveness in recent years. What surprises me is that the most difficult teams to improve are the teams that you yourself are part of; Agile Coach teams.

Erin McManus, Fiona Siseman discuss Agile coaching at Spotify, its evolution, struggles and pitfalls, and how coaches are set up for present and future success.

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Being an Agile Coach & Trainer for Prowareness, I use different types of games, tools and practices every week during meetings, workshops and trainings. Some of these I’ve invented myself, but most already existed and have only been changed slightly to a format that suits me best. I’ll share the what-why-how-when and what worked well and what didn’t. By sharing my experiences I hope to inspire you to give these tools and practices a try for yourself, improve it and hopefully share the perfected version in return.

Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery. Scrum is not a one-size-fits-all solution, a silver bullet or a complete methodology. Instead, Scrum provides the minimal boundaries within which teams can self-organize to solve a complex problem using an empirical approach. This simplicity is its greatest strength, but also the source of many misinterpretations and myths surrounding Scrum. In this series of posts we – your ‘mythbusters’ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem – will address the most common myths and misunderstandings.

My first role on an Agile team was as a scrum master. The only product I had to sell at that time was my experience being the conduit between development and business. Previous roles in quality ass…

The scrum master is responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the practices that the team agreed they would use.

Draw Toast. It’s a simple, elegant approach to promoting clarity, engagement, and alignment. Get playfully clear about how to solve wicked problems inside your organization.

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Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated -- until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of people draw toast.

Games and Exercises are key to how we help organizations switch towards a more agile mindset and behavior. We believe in experiential learning so we include it on each one of our training workshops, leadership management workshops as well as during ongoing coaching and consulting.

In this post I would like to share my experiences on how to best Kickstart, Lift-off or Launch a (new) Scrum Team. Over the years, and…

Learn about the Scrum mom, a common Scrum anti pattern, its manifestations, and the damage to your team caused by being overly protective. #scrumantipatterns #scrummaster #scrummasterantipatterns

Reflection is a key step in refining our development process, without stepping back and reflecting on our experience we do not learn from it. Retrospectives are team reflection sessions that are held to uncover lessons learned. A heartbeat retrospective is the name for an interim retrospective held regularly within an iterative development cycle. This type of retrospective requires a different format to Project Retrospectives because the period that the team is reflecting on is very short - from as little as a week to a month.