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…
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 something outside the team? Even though a lot of the obvious things were done, it came down to simply acknowledging one of the elements from SCARF: A brain-based model for collaborating…
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…
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 important responsibilities of our role as Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters is to assist Agile Teams to perform at the top of their capabilities; by encouraging fluid collaboration and powerful interactions which…
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 consider my work to be art; the art of interconnecting people by helping them to interact and by creating safe environments to allow collaboration. How do you measure that? How…
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 is the link to the post that I wrote on Omar ‘s blog. Curiose about how I do things, and how much value a can bring to your journey? Well…
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 of re-factoring, The two towers So I decided to explore different ways to answer these questions: – What exactly the issue was? – What was the root cause? – What is the…
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 good but let’s get into it. Here is the question that has inspired me to come up with the challenge: ” What we can do to ease Agile Coaches, Scrum…