As Lord Kelvin — and many others, point out — you can’t improve what you don’t measure, and, given the beating heart of any organisations are their teams, most organisations quite rightly perform some kind of assessment of their teams at regular intervals to identify issues, areas for improvement, and…

I’m sure you’ve all been in the situation where your Product Owner, or other stakeholders, are unable to prioritise things. Everything must be done, and done at once. The upshot is, the team gets overwhelemed with requests, nothing gets done, and no real value is delivered to the customer. There…

One of the most effective ways to demonstrate tricky real-world concepts is to run a game that strips away any complexity and concentrates on demonstrating the concept in an unambiguous and obvious way. …

So many people are complaining about spending too much time in meetings at the moment, particularly now so many are now on Zoom or Teams. There is (IMHO, obv…) a solution, however… I have seen a few proposed solutions to this issue described recently, but I’m not convinced any of…

I keep seeing posts on LinkedIn and elsewhere saying “ I can’t get a Scrum Master role, even though I’ve got a qualification, they always say I don’t have enough experience”. How can I get round this?… I keep seeing posts on LinkedIn saying “ I can’t get a Scrum…

I’ve heard this phrase a lot recently; “you can’t use agile in all situations”. It’s usually preceded or followed by talk of “regulatory” or “compliance” projects, or a reference to “Cynefin” as justification. (Don’t worry — I’m not bashing Cynefin here! It’s a great framework. When understood and applied correctly…)…

The new rules on limiting customers numbers and table service seem to have positively affected flow in British pubs. We knew this would be the case, of course if we look at it through a Kanban lens… As many of you are only too painfully aware, the great British pub…

I was minded to write this post after seeing this graph in a recent post discussing Scrum anti-patterns showing up from burndown charts. This anti-pattern is — “The team accomplishes the sprint goal way earlier than expected”. So, presumably, the team delivered value to the customer earlier than they expected…

Is the new normal raising a unique opportunity for Scrum Masters and coaches? There’s been a debate about what value the Scrum Master role brings to the party almost since the inception of agile. Articles such as What does a Scrum Master do all day?, How to Prove the Value…