Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

Why Your Scrum Team Needs a Release Plan

Scrum Release Plan Sets Expectations with Management When teams transition to Agile Scrum, they may decide the only required planning is Sprint Planning. These teams feel that because they are Agile, they don’t have to plan beyond the next Sprint boundary. Most of us...
Scrum of Scrums Manages Cross-Team Commitments

Scrum of Scrums Manages Cross-Team Commitments

Scrum of Scrums Facilitates Coordination across Teams Agile Scrum teams are generally organized around projects or core capabilities, where teams support a set of products that serve a common business purpose. When Scrum teams are organized around core capabilities,...
We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

We are Agile. We are Not Perfect.

Every Team Practices Agile Differently People take time off. I’m an Agile Scrum Master and Coach to a new team in their third sprint. Newbies. I fretted when I realized that I had a mandatory 2-day class scheduled on the same days as my upcoming Retrospective and...
Dealing with the Office Saboteur

Dealing with the Office Saboteur

How to Deal with the Office Saboteur I have never understood why some co-workers feel compelled to gain the upper-hand by acting like a saboteur. Is it insecurity? Possibly jealousy? Or maybe they’ve been facing challenges at home and need to take it out on someone at...
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Agile

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Agile

Why Do Traditional Project Managers Hate Agile? I recently hired into a project management group of mostly traditional lifecycle project managers. The group has a directive to transition the team to become agile. That’s why I’m here. I’m also here to apply agile to...