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 and determining what the igniters are that could turn their regular day into a spectacular one. I truly believe that by collaborating, with sincerity, honesty and good intentions everything is…
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 of the challenges that he has faced, also I would like to share a couple of tips, tricks and tools that have helped him improve his emotional intelligence skills, specifically…
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 their maximum potential. In today’s post, we will share Tom’s latest experience with his new scrum team, and how about his experiences when establishing a relationship of trust with them.…
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…
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 Owner. This team does support(operational stuff) and develop new features at the same time, and it’s considered a service team, which means that its mission is to help other teams…
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?) “detach, digress, following, but extending, perfecting, occasionally breaking the rules” — breaking with tradition — detachment from the illusions of self. ri (離?) “leave, separate, perfecting to creating your own practices” — transcendence — there…