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When to Use Rituals and Regular Routines in Your Team Rituals and routines can help us be more effective and concentrate our effort on the things that matter, but applying rituals without thought can constrain us. Rituals are most useful when they help a team do the right things for the right reasons. |
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Five Lessons to Help You Be a Better Team Coach Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares his recent experience in joining a fitness program assisted by a personal trainer and how that relates to good team coaching. While the program benefited Venkatesh, he writes that his physical change occurred only with willingness and collaboration, not with force. |
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The ScrumMaster Certification Debate: Good or Bad for Agile? CSM certification has become popular, but it is not without controversy in agile circles. There has been not only debate about whether it's just a moneymaker for trainers, but also questions about the validity of the title and what it says about actual ability. Where do you stand in the debate? |
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Tools and Techniques to Help You Be an Efficient Product Owner Venkatesh Krishnamurthy writes on tools and techniques product owners can use to do their jobs more efficiently. Remember, the product owner is responsible for building a valuable, usable, and feasible product. |
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What Is the Difference between an Agile Coach and a ScrumMaster? Joe Townsend explores what exactly the role of an agile coach is and how it differs from the role of a ScrumMaster. For some, ScrumMasters are the front-line fighters and agile coaches are higher up in the organization; for others, an agile coach is the next role a ScrumMaster evolves into. |
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Creating an Environment that Supports Self-Organizing Teams Self-organizing agile teams leverage some basic qualities about what motivates people to help teams deliver. Since these qualities often run counter to traditional management structures, it takes effort to create an environment that supports these kinds of teams. |
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Advice for Geographically Distributed Teams Transitioning to Agile You have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are a geographically distributed team transitioning to agile. But some choices are better than others, and you may need a coach. Similarly, there are many tools available, but you, the team, should choose which you use, not your management. |
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Why Did Agile Fail on Such a Massive Stage? News of the recent collapse of a welfare reform project in the UK has agile in its crosshairs and does little else but blame the philosophy for the project's failure. But a recently released retrospective-like report shows that perhaps the expectations of agile were unrealistic, to say the least. |
