
Facilitation Principles for Agile Teams
People complain that agile has too many meetings. To be effective, agile events need to be focused, productive, collaborative with a clear purpose

People complain that agile has too many meetings. To be effective, agile events need to be focused, productive, collaborative with a clear purpose

How do you create an Increment of work in Scrum? What has it got to do with the Product Goal and Definition of Done?

The duration of time to run 5kms will vary widely between runners due to complexity, fitness, elevation and effort. Relative Estimation is the key.

Should you have business as Product Owners? Is the Release Train Engineer a Delivery Manager? Where do Project Managers go? Aren’t Epic Owners the executive? Everyone gets these things wrong. Find out how to avoid SAFe’s implementation traps.

Are you still asking the ‘three questions’. It’s time you learned some better patterns to inspect your progress toward the team’s Sprint Goal.

You have reports to deliver to executive. Delivery, risk, and cost is foremost on their mind. What kind of reports on your agile capability and delivery, based on objective agile project management metrics, are going to provide you with the best transparency of what’s really going on?

The market is full of agile project management metrics tools that help with on-time and on-budget delivery, but where are the tools that help coaches and consultants understand how to scale agile capability development? Do existing tools do the job well enough?

When things get stale, ROTI is a simple pattern for team feedback that places the ownus of actions for improvement back on them.

What does a Scrum Master do all day? Run events and facilitate meetings? The Scrum Master role has evolved greatly over the last 20 years and now encompasses leadership, coaching, and growing agility through Scrum.

Learning how to drive through value with a focus on the customer is key to executives creating an agile organisation.
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