Articles on Effective Scrum and Core Agile

Does your team's Sprint Planning seem like a complete and utter waste of time? Most of the time, the planning isn't the real problem.

That thing where you’re trying to work but... Surviving interruptions in your team. We look at where they come from and how to eliminate them.

Grouping individuals together doesn’t make them a team. Building High Performance Teams takes time and effort. It is especially important in a world of Generative AI

Spotify never really used the famous model. Or don't create tribes

Data and metrics are not synonymous. Velocity won't help your team improve

Red-Yellow-Green reports hide detail instead of inviting conversations about where projects need help, suppressing problems until it's too late. Better alternatives insid.

The Scrum Guide leaves the choice to the team. The tradeoff: shorter Sprints find problems sooner, longer allow us to ignore them for longer.

_Frequently in workshops, I get asked, “Where shouldn’t we use Scrum?” The short answer is

Learning happens best when people feel motivated, not coerced into skill development.

More specialist, just means more bottlenecks

Forcing change conflicts with the essential human need for autonomy

There are many ways to redefine a work environment to support greater creativity that have

Big-bang rewrites (even with AI) just create tomorrows legacy code base faster

As most Canadians can tell you, the rollout of the Canadian Government’s Phoenix payroll

the best measures still won't measure your biggest risks

Don't let averages fool you. Assume bell curve for 10,000 people's wealth? Include billionaires, and it flattens. Cognitive biases fool us.

In 201x, the global financial markets collapsed. Reason: mortgages were given to people

In construction, a lot of emphasis is placed on predictability­, getting the requirements

At its core, Agile is a set of [Values](https://agilemanifesto.org/) and

I was shopping for a new pair of pants. My expected price was $75 for a decent pair of

“Focus on the customer. Build amazing quality stuff. Release frequently. Always improving.

Nearly 6 months ago I saw another Top 20 list of Agile people. I was troubled. As a result

Games make a memorable way to learn, build a book with your team and practice Scrum

There isn't a Scrum Canon. There are no best practices. Experiment and Learn

There is just one problem, the whole concept of thought leaders is alien to Agile

If there is a line up, cashiers just start opening lanes until the bottleneck is cleared.

On any project it will take from 2-4 months for the team to integrate a new person

Velocity is a tool for prediction. Not comparison and not reward. When it is misused the value is destroyed.

Authors need to respond to reviews and comments

A few years ago [Bas Vodde](https://twitter.com/basvodde?lang=en) defined a simple test to

At Agile 2007, I attended Jean Tabaka's (author of [Collaboration

Effective coaching requires recognizing conflict levels, balancing skills/challenges

As it stands today the [Catalog](https://scrumcommunity.pbwiki.com/Scrum+Smells) contains

Recently I had a conversation with a long time friend that made me realize that in my

Don't estimate task hours It doesn't work

Meetings need simple ground rules and a clear agenda

Working at a distance is hard. There is a reason all the Agile methodologies recommend

**Basics:** The product backlog is a prioritized list of features of everything needed and

At the core of any successful development project is a team. The team can either work

Why Does Scrum work? Why do any of the Agile methodologies work? How does Scrum help teams