As an Agile Coach one of the biggest frustrations for me is when people either won’t try something I’m suggesting, or they try it but don’t seem to be able to get the point of it, or actively try to sabotage it. How many times have I heard, “Well, we tried that and it didn’t work.” […]
One of the questions I get asked the most is “What do we mean by feature or user story, and what the hell is an Epic???” If you or anyone you work with has had to deal with detangling the jargon around how Agile describes the outcomes or work being done by different levels in […]
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I had a Scrum Master I was mentoring a while back tell me she was off to a meeting about capacity planning with her Release Train Engineer (it was a SAFe environment) and she was nervous because there was disagreement about how they should handle it, and tensions had begun to rise. I was immediately […]
The Sprint Demo should be the most exciting meeting on any team’s calendar. Why? Because it is the team’s chance to showcase and celebrate all the hard work they accomplished over the course of a sprint. Traditionally, the Sprint Demo happens at the end of each sprint with the development team, scrum master and product […]