We are humans. And because we are humans, we need to understand how we, or actually our brains, work. Though we can already rely on decades of brain research, we still understand only partially what is happening right up there. The funny thing about that knowledge we gained is that […]
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Within the agile space we often hear: “don’t blame the person, blame the system”. And as a result, I often notice that many people stop thinking about how to make a change, since it is the system that should change. That is a pity, since I believe that change is […]
A common complaint in many businesses is that we have too many meetings. That complaint typically does not disappear in agile setups and it is quite often an excuse to reduce the number or the length of meetings. To start with, I do not believe that in general meetings by […]
Measuring your effectiveness as agile coach or scrum master is not easy. The reason for that is that we work in a complex environment, so there is no such a thing as a small set of indicators that will tell you if your effectiveness has increased or decreased. Given the […]
In my previous post I have discussed estimates and its value when planning our work. In that same post I have mentioned that it should be about the combination of creating value (effectiveness) against reducing costs (efficiency), the so-called return-on-invest. There are different ways to define the value of a […]
Effort estimates within agile teams. A topic that provokes a lot of discussion in many organizations and many teams. During many years I had to deal with “effort estimates” within many contexts, so I am going to share my take on this topic with you, based on the many (different) […]
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 […]
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 […]