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What Is Scrum?
What Is Kanban?
Someone Made Up ‘SDLC’ And Everyone Went Along With It
Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying
I am a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org
A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern
Antipattern: A pattern that may be commonly used but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in practice. A few years ago, I was hired…
Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes
Dear software development manager, Excellent software teams can deploy code multiple times per day. Deploying code multiple times per day…
No Longer Tolerate ‘Blocked’ or ‘Waiting’ States
1 Month ago, I shared a thought at LinkedIn and the response was significant. It’s nice to see widespread agreement that this one, simple…
Empowerment Retro
Team Retrospective — “Feeding the Machine for Corporate Review Season”
An Agile Not-for-Profit Organization
Certification Path for UX Leads
Certification Path for Testers
Starting with APS (Applying Professional Scrum), a crash-course in iterative & incremental product development with self-organizing teams, a…
Certification Path for Scrum Masters
Great Scrum Masters have a well-developed interpersonal intelligence (an eye for team dynamics), excellent group-facilitation skills, broad…
Certification Path for Solutions Architects
What Is a Solutions Architect (SA)? In my experience, Solutions Architect is a job title applied to one of these two roles: A developer…
Certifications: “If I Were You…”
Considerations for Individuals — My Advice When people ask me about training and certification, the conversation often goes like this: “…
Certification & Training Paths for Agile Practitioners
Context I’ll not hide my bias toward the Scrum.org and ProKanban.org certifications. Other organizations may provide similar courseware…
“Can we use Scrum with ‘remote’ staff?”
Does Your Team Produce ‘Bugs’?
Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams
Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!
I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org
The Art of Agile Product Documentation
Looking for Work as a Scrum Master? Choose Wisely.
It appears to me there are more jobs available for Scrum Masters than ever before! Why is it so hard for some people to find employment…
Canada’s Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe
This is a story about one of Canada’s most amazing blunders. It's a story about a multi-billion dollar failed project. First, what is Scrum?…
A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work
A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle…
A Week in the Life of a Scrum Team
A Workshop Facilitation Guide The purposes of this activity are twofold: To illustrate a few of the many real challenges that Scrum Masters…
A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch
Warning: Your competitors are not the patient type. One of the most common pitfalls I see in companies trying to employ Agile practices is…