
I wish I could tell you I never had a bad manager day. I wish I could tell you I never screwed up. Nope, that would be a very tall tale.
Here’s a doozy. I...
0 replies - 2408 views - 02/17/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

What comes after Certified Scrum Master (CSM)? Should it be Expert Scrum Master? Or is it User Story Tips and Tricks for you? Will you consider Combining...
0 replies - 1302 views - 02/15/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

@mick_maguire asked me about “Differentiation” and how it could possibly fit with an Agile team.
It can’t. Not with any team.
Mick also pointed me...
1 replies - 1571 views - 02/15/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Oh no, there is no mistake. It’s not Gangdam Style!
I am always trying to mix software development methodologies into community and marketing...
0 replies - 2333 views - 02/14/13 by Bogomil Shopov in Articles

Why it is bad to have a single point of failure in a product and what to do about it.
Every day we solve problems. Some people solve many problems, some...
0 replies - 2914 views - 02/13/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

Baccarat is an interesting card game that you’ll find at many
casinos. The objective of the game is to correctly predict whether the
bank or player...
6 replies - 10539 views - 02/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

After having worked with Scrum for a number of years, I still witness sprint reviews where the team’s demonstration of the product is confusing and the value...
0 replies - 1291 views - 02/11/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

I hope that by now you see that you have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are geographically distributed team and you are transitioning to...
0 replies - 1363 views - 02/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

One summer, long ago and far away, I was on a softball team. It would be an exaggeration to say I played softball, but I did participate in practices,...
0 replies - 1260 views - 02/10/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln
The zeroeth trap of...
0 replies - 1589 views - 02/09/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams
Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San...
0 replies - 2077 views - 02/09/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

(this article originally appeared on gantthead.com)
Agile project management depends on transparency and feedback.
Visibility into the product and...
0 replies - 1009 views - 02/08/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs, some of them...
0 replies - 1218 views - 02/08/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

In previous posts I covered:
Part 1: Mentor and mentee roles, gains and sacrifices, mutual respect
Part 2: How to choose mentors and mentees and mentorship...
0 replies - 907 views - 02/08/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles

Once a week, or anyway at periodical intervals, my whole team participates in a meeting to discuss a chapter of a technical book, or a rather long article,...
0 replies - 3376 views - 02/07/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles