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 by helping participants to voice their concerns and to propose potential solutions to them, as an alternative way to enable change. In today’s article, I’ll focus on what was done to…
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 with seeing things first, in order to enable change to happen in an evolving and iterative way. In today’s article, I’ll focus on breaking patterns, as an alternative way to enable change,…
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 be in, back then in 2007 when I was working and living in Caracas, Venezuela. A volatile and uncertain context I decided to join this company, believed or not unconsciously attracted by…
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 you through the steps I follow to keep me focused and get the best out the limited amount of time that I’ve in a day. That’s right, we are talking about time management here.…
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 to be a good facilitator. As leaders we spend a lot of time in meetings, but it’s rare to see people using facilitation to keep even the most challenging group…
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 and create a plan for the next 24 hours” within the Scrum guide provided by Scrum.org. For Martin Fowler the “Daily stand-up meetings have become a ritual of many agile…
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 adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the product backlog” within the Scrum guide provided by Scrum.org. When is Product Backlog refinement held? It really depends; given that it’s…
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 a baseball practice, one of the experienced guys, who was like 7 years old, throw a ball at me and I couldn’t catch it which made me really feel bad.…
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 complete for the customer by the end of the iteration. It’s also the time for the team to set the sprint goal, and to discus and agree upon the sprint…
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 improve at the sprint review. Here is an introduction to what this ceremony is about, when it occurs, who participates and some techniques to master it. What is the Sprint…