Your team isn’t diverse? You should panic. Right now!
We are at our most innovative when we exchange ideas with people from diverse backgrounds—even those with whom we vehemently disagree.” — Survival of the…
We are at our most innovative when we exchange ideas with people from diverse backgrounds—even those with whom we vehemently disagree.” — Survival of the…
When you change the way you think about product development you will change the way you want to do product development. Remember to focus on…
It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. — Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (page 416) by Gerald…
When was the last time you felt like you had everything completely under control? If you are like most people who attend my classes, you…
Knowledge, particularly self-knowledge, is freedom. Why is this so? When you know yourself, you can work and live 100% within your wheelhouse in ALL aspects…
Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team…
Many people think Scrum is about getting things done faster. It isn’t. You get the right things done in the right order and you leave…
Juggling is an illusion. … In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. … It is actually task switching. —…
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. –US Navy SEALs Your team is trying to go too fast. There, I said it. Deal with it.…
One of the most important things in life is to differentiate between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over…
2020 will go down as the year that started the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many memes about 2020, but I think Match.com may have won…
A team’s success with Scrum depends on five values: commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. — https://www.scrumalliance.org/about-scrum/values Is it possible five simple words will lead…
Scrum exposes your problems. Great teams fix their problems, mediocre teams say they can’t do anything about their problems. One improves, the other stays stuck…
team building: the action or process of causing a group of people to work together effectively as a team, especially by means of activities and…
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…
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…
The Daily Scrum isn’t about status. It is about alignment. I’d prefer to call it the Daily Alignment to make that point crystal clear. —…
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…
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.…
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…
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