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Agile Coaching Tip: Effective or Efficient?
Effective or efficient, if you had to choose one, which would you rather be and why? I stumbled upon this question during an agile coaching assignment a few years ago. After several days of being at...
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Agile Coaching Tip: Policies vs. Judgment
It started out simple enough, a colleague of mine posted a query to our internal forum about guidelines for sharing certain types of content. At first, I thought nothing of the request, it was just...
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Agile Coaching Tip: Robust vs. Resilient Plans
Recent experiences with agile coaching and reading has brought me to a concept of resiliency, which I have found to contain fascinating implications for modern product development and project...
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Lean Time Management: Are You a Slave to Someone’s Calendar?
When you get to work in the morning, what is the first thing that you do? I mean, after getting the cup of coffee and cinnamon-swirl danish. Do you check your calendar to see what meetings you have to...
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Personal Kanban: One Agile Coach’s Journey
Editor’s note: One of our agile coaches and Scrum trainers, Dave Prior, has been keeping a log of his experience using Kanban to manage his own work. You can follow his adventures every other week on...
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Personal Kanban: Week One, Dysfunction Goes to Eleven
Editor’s note: One of our agile coaches and Scrum trainers, Dave Prior, has been keeping a log of his experience using Kanban to manage his own work. You can follow his adventures every other week on...
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Stop Replacing Trust with Process – The Path to Lasting Change
Does it seem you spend more time talking about the work than actually doing the work? Do you find it takes longer and longer to deliver anything of value to the customer? Did someone just create a new...
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The Great Wall: Scaling Agile on a Multi-Team Project
If you are launching a large-scale agile project (e.g. one that requires more than a couple of Scrum teams) then careful consideration should be given to how you scale the management of the project....
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Ideal Days: Unnecessary Agile Evil?
Agile teams have a valid need for sizing or estimating user stories. Most teams use a dimensionless scale such as story points for estimating. In some quarters “Ideal Days” are often held out as...
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Tracking Points vs. Tracking Hours
One of the questions that frequently comes up in the CSM trainings is: “Is it better to track points or hours?” The short answer is that either is fine. Both provide valuable information which can be...
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