I have been working with many teams throughout the years. And all these teams have actually succeeded in improving their way of working. So how do I support those teams to achieve that? What is the definition of success? It is an ongoing discussion in many companies and it is […]
Jaarlijkse archieven: 2023
In this episode we will focus on the scope of a scrum master role. The reason for having a good conversation about it, is the fact that many times not everyone understands or does not want to understand that scope. Specifically in bigger organisations or organisations where a mixture of […]
Fun, fear and focus is the title of a keynote talk by neuroscientist Frederike Frabritius some time ago. In the last few years neuroscientists all over the world start to understand better how our brains are impacted by many “circumstances”, which includes the effect of specific hormones on our brains […]
For agile coaches and scrum masters it feels kind of easy to keep ourselves busy with the “transparency” part of scrum. There are many easy wins, like making a backlog visible (to whom is interested), or putting meetings to fulfil the scrum events in attendees agenda’s. And many tools support […]
One of the most important concepts within agility is about running experiments. According to the dictionary an experiment is a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact. An experiment is a wonderful thing, since it is focussed to outcomes (learnings). The worst […]
One of my followers asked me if I have experience in working within an environment where the company tried to S_Fe themselves into agility and how I deal with that. Of course I have (multiple) examples where an own mix of frameworks have been introduced, and I have certainly some […]
This post is about cultivating cultures, which is a pattern that I observe regularly throughout my (agile) career. Cultivating cultures is a great thing to do, though I notice some lack of culture awareness, which may result into exactly the opposite of what you want to achieve. Culture is an […]
This fourth post is about quite a difficult topic: self awareness. Though it is generally applicable to everyone: to be self aware, and next having the ability to act upon that, is a great habit to bring in as coach and scrum master. When I started my agile journey, I […]
This third post is about keeping things simple. Or actually, keeping things simple in the context of a retrospective. When I started to work with a scrum team, I did not have a very broad backpack filled with techniques to equip my events. So in my very first years, I […]
On a daily basis I see (and read) many posting about agility, scrum and many, many other frameworks, methods, tools and opinions about them. I will take a specific challenge that I have seen quite often in practise and next dissect it. And give you some ideas on how I […]
On a daily basis I see (and read) many posting about agility, scrum and many, many other frameworks, methods, tools and opinions about them. So I have been wondering what another posting would add to that collection without being overly repetitive and interesting enough to be read. Of course I […]