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What Does a Good Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Look Like?
The key to a successful Minimum Viable Product is not any specific feature or any product-oriented characteristic. In fact, a…
5 Signs that Your Agile Team is Dysfunctional (And What You Can Do About It)
I’m sure by now, you have seen plenty of articles and papers that use sports analogies to describe the dynamics of…
5 Phrases to Watch Out for During Daily Scrum
Having coached dozens of Scrum teams over the past few years, I have seen all kinds of variations of the…
From Scrum to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – A ScrumMaster’s Perspective
The following is a fictional narrative from a Scrum Master who is on a journey to make the transition from…
Agile Retrospectives vs. Project Post-Mortems – 5 Key Differences to be Aware Of
Agile Retrospectives versus Project Post-Mortem – 5 key differences to be aware of Have you ever wondered why Agile teams…
5 Tips to Help You Keep Your Daily Scrum In 15 Minutes (And Still Make It Productive!)
In this article, I will share some tips based on my experience helping teams learn to run productive Daily Scrums,…
Iterative Development vs Agile
A few years ago I taught a class on Iterative Development. I taught it just once. I’m an Agile Expert,…
Classic Scrum versus SAFe Scrum
After studying the Scrum Guide on multiple occasions over the past few weeks in preparation for a PSM1 Scrum Master…
Lean and Agile Principles for Transformation at Scale
Agile - Roots and Current State When the concept of Agile delivery was originally designed, it primarily focused on improving…
Use Case 2.0 – The Perfect Solution to your Agile Requirements Problem?
You have just been approved to stand up a new Agile team to enhance speed of delivery, improve transparency, and…
Extreme Programming vs. Scrum
At the beginning of my career I became an OS/2 developer. Windows won the head-to-head competition for the PC operating…
5 Planning Poker Tips and Tricks That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Planning Poker, usually considered the standard tool for conducting estimation for Agile projects, is a tool that is often misunderstood…