The Great Resignation is coming, and is your company prepared? Will you be the ones receiving applications from innovative, talented...

I am going to tell you the story of an agile transformation from the Quality Assurance (QA) perspective. Why? Often, as Agile Coaches, we...

Earl Nightingale "What is on the inside shows up on the outside." That is the clearest reason I have found for why companies need to...

My father once told me a story about the wild west. There was a stranger looking to travel across California. He found a man with a stage...

Psychological safety. One of the necessities to building a high performing team. And one of the most difficult areas to achieve or...

Interested in becoming Agile? First, one thing to understand, Agile is not a Method. Agile is a mind-set. Got that? Agile was created to...

A new sensation has hit households. "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" is a new show on Netflix, inspiring individuals to declutter their...

Usually when the holidays come around, it is very difficult to maintain focus on teams. Our brains are contemplating parties, presents,...

Has the fibonacci sequence got you down? Do you often find yourself in refinement staring at the ceiling? Do you want to scream to the...

When I first started working with American teams, I did an internet search looking for various holiday themed retrospectives. I found...

What if I told you that: Cooking dinner is a bit like the process of refining what a team can work on in a sprint. You have to make the...

Expert Lyssa Adkins describes Agile Coaches as being a competent in the following areas: “Agile Lean Practitioner, Professional Coaching,...

Don’t believe that Scrum can work for non-software development projects? Try this on for size. I didn’t start as an Agile Coach. I was...

The 3 Ls - Listen, Learn, Language It’s happening again. You are a new Agile Coach or a new Scrum Master asked to join a new team. There...

What many people don't realize is that the official Scrum Guide is actually very short (19 pages to be precise). A lot of what we do,...

~This post is dedicated to all my 2018 Squads~ How you leave a team is just as important as how you start with a team. I have had to do...

Great leaders are always looking for the 3 Cs in their teams: Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. Robin Williams, Steve...

Spikes, huh, good God! What are they good for? Just imagine Edwin Starr singing the title. Don't know the reference ? Education time here...

In this post, I hope to walk you through one company's solution to making sure they had the right Scrum Masters in the right roles at the...

Let me tell you a story. Every year, the town of Le Mans, France is taken over by an incredible racing event. This particular race...

Welcome to the fundamentals of Scrum demonstrated through a team outing to an All You Can Eat Sushi restaurant. I consider myself a very...