The “Other” Standup Meeting
Today we want to tell you about a simple trick: a different kind of standup meeting. The daily standup is the most famous – the most notorious – element of Scrum; to this day, there are leaders who think that if a few people stand…
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“No need for a retrospective, we are so good at dealing with problems on the fly”
I get the above sentence in the face over and over again. And how true it is, isn’t it? Well, no! What? How could it not? Why not? No, because retrospective is not the way to solve problems. Now get your chin off the ground…
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Agile versus Home office
It’s not news to anyone that the pandemic has caused many people to withdraw to their home offices, in one form or another. But what happens to teams using Agile methodologies, since agility puts a strong emphasis on personal presence and personal communication. Won’t they…
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Scrum versus individual development, career path
We continue the analysis of the article linked in the previous post with the following half-sentence: ‘Scrum practice of ignoring peoples’ career goals and their individual talents’. Unfortunately, the fact is that there are plenty of Scrum implementations where the above statement has become true….
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How does a group become a team
The confusion between the terms “team” and “group” is a common phenomenon. A few people get chosen, told that they are a team, maybe even are put in the same office, and then are expected to perform a miracle. The miracle doesn’t come. Because there…
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New Certified Agile Leadership Training: We bring you the details
The Scrum Alliance programme for Agile leaders – so far known as CAL I – is now divided into three sub-courses: CAL-Essentials, CAL-Teams, and CAL-Organizations. The aim was to innovate in order to provide a more flexible, customizable training path for leaders looking to learn.
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Certified or Advanced? Which training should I choose?
“I’d like to attend a Scrum Master or Product Owner training, which one should I select? What is the difference between the Advanced, Certified and the Advanced Certified course?”
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A short guide on delegation
Delegation is a quite important task in the life of a leader. In this article, we will present how to carry out delegation and which levels it has.
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What are metrics and how do you use them?
There are a lot of misconceptions about metrics inside and outside of the agile world. Metrics are tools providing feedback about one single aspect of an area under surveillance, and nothing more. They are not goals. It is dangerous to derive conclusions based on a…
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Agile & Lean
It’s a known fact, that agility is rooted in Lean. Unfortunately Lean principles are only present implicitly in the methodology, their original form is not apparent. This can be one of the main reasons why we often have the impression during an agile transformation that…
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