by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 30, 2017 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transition
Who on your Scrum Team should Perform these Core Project Management Functions? You’ve convinced your bosses to let you introduce Agile Scrum into your company and you’ve picked your pilot project. You gathered your team, trained them, you’ve enlisted an enthusiastic...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jul 16, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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...
by Cynthia Kahn | Jun 10, 2017 | Agile Scrum
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...
by Gerri Grove | Jun 3, 2017 | Business
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...
by Cynthia Kahn | May 14, 2017 | Agile Transition
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...