Your perception might not be my reality
Let’s start by having a share understanding about the meaning of the word perception. Here is a definition I found: Perception: the ability to see,…
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If you can connect with people, you can build the future
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Personal Stories: The Roots of Empathy in action
Personal Stories: The Roots of Empathy in action Yesterday once again, I’ve used the “Personal Stories“ retrospective exercise that I’ve shared in my workbook “Forming…
Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Wall Estimating Planning
Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Wall Estimating Planning In my previous article Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Give everyone a voice, I exposed my views about breaking patterns…
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Guest Blogging at Scrumexpert & Methods and Tools
Guest Blogging at ScrumExpert & Methods and Tools Franco Martinig editor and responsible of the digital Magazines Methods & Tools and ScrumExpert invited me last year, to…
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Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Give Everyone a voice
Breaking patterns 2 enable change: Give everyone a voice In my previous article Making things visible 2 enable change, I exposed my views about helping others…
Make things visible 2 enable change
Make things visible 2 enable change Let’s be honest here, the first time I saw the power of Making Things Visible in action and acknowledge it…
Keep trying Keep acting
Keep acting Keep trying I’ve started 2017 in a new company, a new professional challenge in a particular context, rarely similar to what I used to…
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The secret sauce of a team (Outer team factors)
In my previous post “the Inner team factor to reach greatness“, I have shared some thoughts about the outcome of a retrospective with one of my teams, who listed the…
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The secret sauce of a team (Inner team factors)
A couple of weeks ago, I facilitated a sprint retrospective with a mature Agile Scrum team, composed by three experienced developers and a its Product…
Tips4Leaders: 18 minutes per day to keep you focused
In the previous article of the #Tips4Leaders series, I’ve presented you with the 3 top things to consider when facilitating. In today’s issue, I’m going to walk…
Tips4Leaders: 3 things to consider when facilitating
In today’s world, being a leader is much harder than ever. One of the skills that in my opinion a good leader should master is…
Forming Agile Teams (6) Levels of Planning + Experiment
Forming Agile Teams (6) Levels of Planning + Experiment Inspired from Russell Pannone’s presentation called “5 levels of agile planning explained simply” and the experiments…
Techniques for improving the Daily sync
Techniques for improving the daily sync What is the daily sync about? The Daily sync is considered as the “event for the development team to synchronize activities…
Halloween: A great event for team forming
Year after year, I see pictures of work teams and their costumes. People dressing up and have an excuse to be silly and it only…
Techniques for improving Product Backlog refinement in Scrum
Techniques for improving Product Backlog refinement in Scrum What is the Product Backlog refinement about? The Product Backlog refinement is considered as the “act of…
SCARF: the hidden power of STATUS
A team member’s production went from superstar to detrimental within a few short weeks. What happened for this drastic change? Were there signs? Was it…
Team Conflict Resolution Part 1: Laying the ground work
You just got out of a meeting which your primary goal was to resolve a major conflict between two of your team members. A sense…
What I’ve learned from baseball
What I’ve learned from baseball I started playing baseball when I was 5 years old. Can you imagine that? The first time I went to…
Techniques for improving the Sprint Planning in Scrum
Techniques for improving the Sprint Planning in Scrum What is the Sprint Planning for? It’s the event for planning what the team has forecasted to…
Techniques for improving the Sprint review Scrum
Techniques for improving the Sprint review in Scrum In my workbook Forming Agile Teams, I have documented several techniques to help ScrumMasters help Agile teams…
Authenticity, it’s all about being yourself
Authenticity, it’s all about being yourself The first weekend of June, I went to my third Agile Coach Camp Canada without knowing what I was…
What I’ve learned from my ‘saboteurs’
What I’ve learned from my ‘saboteurs’ This year has been a learning experience for me; a roller-coaster full of surprises and discoveries about myself. I’ve…
Those things that I really like to do
I’m really passionate about working with people, observing them, spending time trying to get into what they want in life, identify what motivates their souls…
Our Role in the Communication Process
We have a word to say when it refers to communication with, within and without the Agile Team. In my opinion, one of the most…
Don’t Stop Believing
Sense, observe, fell, acknowledge, connect, serve, help, listen, understand and facilitate; words that are present in my daily work as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master. I…
Everybody wants to have fun (Structure to conquer)
When working with a new team; not necessarily new to practicing with Agile Scrum, but new to practicing together, I’ve observed a lot of challenges…
Context shifting, adapting to survive
In today’s world, context shifting has become a common theme. In fact, being in an organization now-a-days is like being inside infinite waves of continuous…
Play the role of superhero that you have inside – I (Protecting the Product Owner)
My friend Tom Agile likes playing the super hero role, so once in it; he believes that he has been empowered to protect the team…
Who cares about Emotional Intelligence? I Do
Today, I want to share another story from my friend Tom Agile about emotional intelligence skills in an agile context. In addition, I’ll expose some…
Establishing a relationship of trust, your main goal
Let me introduce to you my friend Tom Agile. Tom is an experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach who is really passionate about helping others to reach…
Join forces and go for Pair Scrum Mastering to succeed
First of all, I want to thank you Omar Bermudez, for honoring me with his invitation to write as guest in your incredible and well-reputed blog. Here…
The battle of re-factoring, The two towers
During the Agile Team Development Canvas 4th iteration experiment, I was looking for ideas to help the team to deal with what I’ve called: The battle…
Share goals and make the difference
Context During the Agile Team Development Canvas 2nd. iteration experiment, I worked with a small Scrum team composed by two (2) developers and its Product…
Agile Team Development Canvas – 1st.Iteration (Some results, tools & observations)
First of all, I wish you a happy, healthy and generous 2015 to you and your families. In my latest post I through a challenge to…
“Coaching teams: from forming to performing and more” challenge
I’m more than happy, excited about sharing the first of several posts to come, about a question that I’m more than curious to explore. Well, suspens is…
Those signs that make you feel inspired…it could be Self-Organization
I have had the chance to experience how it feels to be part of a high performance team, and I can tell you, it feels…
Six (6) steps to deal with new projects in Scrum
Context The team is in the middle of the sprint and suddenly the Product Owner (PO) arrives from its weekly meeting with a stakeholder. He…
Where are we with the stakeholders? Shu-Ha-Ri? Exploring phase
In Japanese martial arts there is a concept which describes the stages of learning to mastery named Shuhari: Shu (守?) “Novice or beginner; narrowly following give practices” – traditional wisdom -learning fundamentals, techniques, proverbs. ha (破?)…
Kanban for new agile teams? I think it is a good idea
Last year, I was hired by Seedbox Technologies to be the Scrum Master of a new agile-scrum team. This team was starting working in the agile world…
Add yoga classes to your everyday life
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Studio photography secrets
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Corporate identity: core design principles
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Rustic interior ideas
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Warm winter weekend
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Summer 2015 fashion trends
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Awesome fashion promo video
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Inspiring an old scrum team to get better
I’ve been working with a Scrum team at Seedbox Technologies since May 2013 as their Scrum Master. Since then, the team has followed the company standards…
The Art of possibility – Dream and makes them dream to inspire and get inspired
I’ve finished an online course named “Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence” that I totally recommend if you want to improve your leadership skills and inspire…
Scrum Team Improvement Plan (S-TIP)
I wanted to start this year with a powerful and exciting subject, something a little bit complex but achievable which is the Team Improvement Plan.…
Transitioning from Scrum Master to Agile Coach – Challenges
Between 2010 and the beginning of 2013, I had been playing the role of the agile facilitator as Scrum Master of the software development teams…
Give with generosity – A history about trust
It is amazing how people relationships are builded around the world, and I’m saying it because I could confirm it once again, during an extraordinary…
The power of self organization – Go away Command & Control Monster
Let’s faced it, everybody love when you say: “Don’t worry, let’s the team manage it, remember that they are self organized”, but it is always…
Lessons learned – Never Give Up
Did you already experienced that an exercise, that you prepared to do during a sprint retrospective, is not going into the sense that you thought…
Learning by Teaching – Sprint reviews Tips & Tricks
Did somebody within the team, or even within the organization asked you why do we need to prepare a meeting at the end of the…
Learning by teaching – User Stories
How many times we face confusion about User Stories in our teams ? Is the term who make the concept difficult ? How many discussions…
Retrospectives Toolbox – Value Driven Retrospective
This week started by looking for an activity to play in the sprint retrospective, with one of the most experienced scrum teams that I have…
Tips and tricks to get into a experienced scrum team as their new scrum master
Some weeks ago, my boss asked me to became the Scrum Master of an existing scrum team within the company. As they promised, I would…
Tonight is the night – Agile Open Space “Awesome”
Hi fellow Agile Lovers I’m so happy about tonight open space experience that I’d decided to wake up early this morning just to share my…
Tonight is the night
Tonight is the night for our first try with an open space meeting. Here in Montreal, at the offices of our main sponsor Seedbox Technologies,…
Retrospectives Toolbox – Non musical chairs game
Later on, at the beginning of my journey with one of the teams that I have been working with since February 2013, I wanted to use…
Do we have a User Story Life Cycle in our Scrum projects ?
I did this presentation based on some materials that I found on internet to share it with you in a Prezi format. http://prezi.com/q722t6ubqcsa/user-story-life-cycle/?kw=view-q722t6ubqcsa&rc=ref-38489471 But my…