Powerful ways to build amazing teams (1 of 5)
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Author: Bob Hartman
Known as Agile Bob, brings over 35 years of experience and broad industry knowledge cultivated by serving in almost every role in the software industry including developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, product manager, project manager, business analyst, senior software engineer, development manager and executive. Over the past 20+ years Bob has grown from being an early adopter of Agile to his current status as a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) and Certified Enterprise Coach℠ (CEC) and an expert in training, coaching and mentoring across all areas of Agile development. Bob is a popular speaker, having spoken at numerous major conferences, seminars, workshops and user group meetings where his engaging style, holistic view of development and personal anecdotes are always well received by attendees. See his upcoming courses by clicking on Upcoming Courses under Agile For All in the menu at the top of your screen.
The New Direction of Agile For All
Like all of you, I’m glad 2020 is in the rearview mirror! I’m very hopeful that 2021 will be far better overall than 2020. There…
Five Fixes for “It’s not my job!” Syndrome
Have you ever heard someone say, “It’s not my job!” How did that make you feel? A lot of you must feel strongly about this…
Try this to improve team performance
Do you know a team that is struggling? Maybe your team? So often, leaders focus on trying to help the team improve performance without actually…
End of Sprint 2 of My Writing Experiment (Why Tools are Still Important)
My two-week trial of Ulysses ends tomorrow. I already know what I’ll be doing! Against all odds, Ulysses has successfully ingrained itself into my workflow.…
The first step when managing dependencies
What do you do when the project you are working on has a lot of dependencies? I just spent some time looking for advice on…
Agile For Alls’s Quote of the Week – January 13, 2021
I’ve read a lot of books about agile. None of them have said, “Be dumb.” None of them have said, “Be smart.” either, but they…
Results of my First 2021 Writing Sprint
Well, that was easy! I downloaded Ulysses and figured it out enough to create a blog post later in the day. Super easy to use.…
Using Scrum in 2021
I am writing this on January 3, 2021, basically the start of a new year. Like most people, at the beginning of a new year,…
An Agile Lesson from the Movie “City Slickers”
As an Agile trainer and coach, I have worked with hundreds of companies over the past 10 years. After reflecting back on my interactions with…
Peter Drucker ’s view is integral to the values of Scrum
Peter Drucker said, “Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of…
Peter Drucker understood agile leadership and agility before it even existed!
Management and leadership in the 21st century need to be significantly different or businesses will be left behind. People recognize this and management is slowing…
Agile For All adds three new members to the team
In case you missed the press release, Peter Green, Adobe Systems Agile Transformation Leader, will join our Agile For All team on March 16th. I am…
Agile and Scrum training the Agile For All way
Take a moment to consider the last time you were in any sort of training environment. Were the tables set up “classroom style” so everyone…
Looking Back at the Past Two Years
I want to start this post by thanking Eric Englemann (yes, that is him above!), the CEO of one of our awesome clients, Geonetric. Almost…
With apologies to Bill Engvall, ScrumMasters, here’s your sign!
Have you ever had one of those days when you wondered if your ScrumMaster was on crack? Or maybe you’re the ScrumMaster and the you…
Agile Practitioners Aren’t Supposed to Use Flamethrowers – Are They?
Have you ever been in a flamethrower war? I sincerely hope you have never been in one like the picture, but if you have been…
As a ScrumMaster silence can be golden!
I love it when someone who was in one of my workshops sends me a message saying something from the workshop worked well for them.…
An Agile Merry Christmas 2010!
Are you feeling the Christmas spirit yet? I know not everyone celebrates Christmas, so if that isn’t the holiday for you, think about your equivalent,…
Overdue Agile and Scrum Thanks
Last year around this time I wrote a blog entry “New to agile? Give thanks!” That was written from the perspective of an agile team…