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For the better part of my career, I have been both a trainer and a student, which has allowed me to gain interesting insights from both perspectives of a teacher and a learner. As technology...

Bottlenecks occur on all planes of reality. Think of a river flowing to the ocean. What happens when that river gets obstructed by a fallen tree or a rock slide? The flow of the river...

Having spent the past several years as a consultant, I have encountered a variety of organizations and situations that required my help in different roles. In some cases, I was a Scrum Master, and in...

Recently, I have been studying Disciplined Agile (DA) quite a bit. Despite having implemented DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) over 10 years ago, I was intrigued by how this approach has evolved over this period of...

Recently, I was asked to consult with a new software team that had been struggling to deliver a working product consistently. This team has been together for about 6 months and is leveraging 2-week sprints...

As more workers across the globe are becoming “virtual” workers, many of us never physically meet our teammates. While this can make financial sense for our employers, it also creates challenges in building team rapport...

Whether you have a remote/distributed team, or need to deploy a virtual team, holding any collaboration events for an Agile team is no easy task. As the Agile Manifesto states, we should value “Individuals and...

So, your Scrum team is now virtual, possibly not by choice. Does this mean that you won’t be able to maintain the discipline that you have spent so much time and effort to instill upon your team?...

Digital transformation: it means different things to different people, but it’s really not that hard to understand. It really boils down to three main ingredients. First, modernizing old technology. Second, embracing software-driven value, and third,...

If you are trying to build a complex product or solution, there’s a high probability that one Scrum team is not going to be enough to design and build this on time. This is where scaling comes into the picture....

If you work within a technology company, or a company that uses technology to produce goods or services, you probably have already been exposed to Agile software development, most likely Scrum. You may have been part of...

By now, I am sure you have heard that Scrum is great for developing software products. You may have heard that Scrum can also be used for non-software projects, but you may also be unsure...