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Last month I wrote about team norms, or working agreements as I prefer to call them, and how they relate to the work of Dr Richard Hackman.  Team norms fall into Hackman’s enabling structures [...]

In teamwork, the establishment of effective team norms plays a key role in creating a cohesive and productive group dynamic. The work of Richard Hackman, a psychologist, and organisational [...]

Facilitation is one of the competencies within the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel and one of the core stances of an Agile Coach. It is a process of guiding a group or team through interactions that [...]

Agile Coach and Beliminal Partner, Mark Summers, examines how Agile coaching is adapting in 2021 to the 'new normal' and remote coaching

After a challenging year for businesses, BeLiminial Partner Mark Summers examines what lies ahead in the first of our Future of Work series

What does being an Agile Coach mean? Experienced Coach, Mark Summers, talks through the coaching mindset and art of self reflection

The second of the Scrum events is the Sprint Review, a crucial time for the team and stakeholders to get together and assess progress

The product backlog is one of the most important artefacts in Scrum and left unmaintained it can become the single most disruptive element to the team

Sprint Planning is the first of the Scrum Events within the Sprint, the one where the team agrees the goal for the Sprint and makes an initial plan

In the fifth and final of our posts on Scrum Values, we learn about the importance of Respect and how it can make or break the team

Understanding Scrum Values: Openness is the fourth value described in the Scrum Guide and here we explore what that means for the members of the Scrum Team

The third in our Scrum Values series looks at Focus and how simplicity and breaking tasks down into smaller chunks helps the perform at their best

What do all successful coaches have in common? During the recent BeLiminal Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training, I demonstrated what personal coaching could look like by coaching my friend and [...]

Reading the newspaper over breakfast this morning, I came across an intriguing article regarding a newly discovered species of ant in Borneo, the Colobopsis explodens ant. This got me thinking [...]