Being an Agile Coach
What does being an Agile Coach mean? Experienced Coach, Mark Summers, talks through the coaching mindset and art of self reflection
User story maps: Tips and tricks to get you started fast
User Story Backlog Hell Suppose for a moment that you have a spreadsheet with three-hundred user stories in it. Stories gathered and written during many user story writing workshops. Or maybe [...]
The Agile Coaching Growth Wheel
The “Agile Coaching Growth Wheel” is a tool for Agile Coaches and ScrumMasters to help them reflect and grow themselves on their Agile journey.
Retrospective Ideas: Exploring Team Dynamics
Photo by Margarida CSilva on Unsplash We’ve got a great exercise you can use in your team retrospectives or workshops to better understand the nature of groups and explore the hidden [...]
Scrum Coaching Retreats
Scrum Coaching Retreats began in 2011 and since then, they have become widespread. The idea was started and driven forward by a group of volunteer Certified Scrum Coaches, working closely with [...]
The Quest for High Performance: A team start up exercise
Some time ago, I worked with Lyssa Adkins to improve my coaching skills. One of our areas of focus was team start-up and the expectation for our teams to become high performing. In our work [...]
Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban (STATIK)
In 2015 Eben and Tom delivered a talk at the BCS London Lean Kanban Day to describe a recent STATIK workshop they conducted. Within their talk they explored the practical implementation of a [...]
Speaking at Agile Fest 2017: Systems Thinking – 2017 series kick off
Yesterday, February 21, I delivered a Keynote to the delegates of BarclayCard Agile Fest. This is kicking off a series of experiential sessions I will be hosting at meetups in London this year. [...]
Sailboat Retrospective: A technique to use in the Scrum
I use the sailboat retrospective as an activity to gather information for Sprint Retrospectives, Release Retrospectives or even when I go in as a coach to find out where teams are. It is a fun [...]
Team sizes and communication pathways
Recently, I worked with a co-located team of 12 – more than the recommended Scrum team size of 5-7 plus or minus one. I wasn’t happy about this but, as it was only three more than the recommended [...]
Maximising quality through better product backlog refinement
Backlog Refinement and the Scrum Backlog refinement is an important activity in Scrum, equal in importance to the Scrum events. The process allows the team to share thoughts and forces the team [...]
