Researching leadership for a book I recently interviewed a Scrum Master who had done their thesis on Integral Leadership. When I asked about their ideas on leadership their immediate reply was, “We don’t talk enough about followership.” They then proceeded to spend the next 40 minutes talking about leadership. In their defense I didn’t ask […]
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We’ve all had the experience of being in a group where everything is flowing really well, people are aligned, and everyone’s energy is high. Then one person says or does something that seems to pop the bubble, and the flow of good ideas stops. The typical response in these situations is a kind of uncomfortable […]
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At the end of each Sprint/Iteration, a Demo meeting is held where the Team shows what they accomplished during the past 2 weeks. Given that Agile is an empirical process, and the goal of every Sprint is to product Potentially Shippable Software, only work that meets the Definition of DONE is demonstrated at the end […]
These are questions Agile team members ask every sprint. When a team does a retrospective, the answers to these can be very subjective. The right set of lightweight metrics provides objective, results-driven feedback that focuses the discussion on areas of highest impact. Feedback and Management Tools Here is a set of lightweight metrics that can be […]
These are questions project and program managers ask every sprint. On Agile projects, the answers are based on the team’s historical achievements and projected forward using recent results. This leads to greater and greater confidence in the information as the project moves towards release dates, and enables the manager to communicate a roadmap with high […]