Articles and videos on creating and managing cross-functional Scrum teams: scrum master, product owner and development team.
Most teams I work with have three distinct roles; BA, Developer, and QA. Most teams I work with have three distinct phases of their work; gather requirements, build, verify. Even on agile teams, these separations exist.
Understanding the significance of team dynamics is essential in fostering an Agile environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and productivity. This article discusses the importance of team dynamics for Scrum teams.
Based on a true story of the lessons learned coaching two Scrum teams on one product. Why is it that the same coaching techniques, in the same environment, can lead to drastically different outcomes? Learn how to identify the culture cycle and break bad habits to unlock the power of Agile team self-management.
This video is an introduction to four valuable mapping techniques and models that build clarity, alignment, and confidence in teams using a combination of collaboration, visibility and measurement.
Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban conferences have been organized all over the world in recent years. With the popularity of the Agile approaches, they have attracted important audiences and therefore started to capture their sessions on video. This article presents a list of the best Agile and Scrum video channels available on YouTube from these conferences.
If we have always to remember that it is more important to be Agile than to do Agile, there are still many organizations practicing Scrum in a “cargo cult” mode. In this article, Mark Haynes describes, with a facetious bias, some of the common anti-patterns of Scrum Masters.
Today, many scrum teams and Agile organizations have incorporated some forms of remote work. This article presents the challenges of managing a distributed scrum team and provides actionable tips for success.
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