Posts by Carlton Nettleton

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Carlton Nettleton is the former SVP of Product at Applied Frameworks, and co-creator of the company's Advanced Scrum Online Academy and Profitable Software Academy. Carlton has over twenty years of industry experience working with clients to improve quality, increase productivity, build great teams, and launch new products using Agile software development practices and techniques. Today, Carlton is the President of Look Foward Consulting and focuses on mentoring and supporting Scrum and Agile practitioners who work in less-than-ideal conditions. He shares his energy and enthusiasm with learners so they can achieve their personal and professional goals. Carlton is fluent in both English and Spanish, has written a short book on Scrum, and has been Certified Scrum Trainer® since 2012.

Importance of Concrete Action Items

Importance of Concrete Action Items Retrospectives without concrete action items are pretty much a complete waste of time... Read More

Fourteen Cognitive Biases Common to Product Owners

While the human mind has an amazing capacity for creative thought and sheer computational power, it has some annoying... Read More

A Developer Can't Be the Product Owner

The Product Owner on my team is also a developer on the team. Do you have any advice on using Scrum in such a scenario? ... Read More

Build Working Agreements Fast

Working Agreements are one of the core compacts that all good Agile teams need and use. For those of you unfamiliar with... Read More

Six Common Mistakes of a Product Owner

How do you cope with the weak Product Owner? You don’t – find a new Product Owner (PO) or stop using Scrum. Scrum is... Read More

The Roman Voting Technique for Agile Teams

This is one of my all-time favorite techniques to quickly arrive at consensus for Agile Teams. I use Roman Voting ALL the... Read More

Simple Coaching Techniques for the Agile Coach

Coaching is a distinct and powerful skill from the eight other essential skills of an Agile Coach (CSP-SM). Because coaching... Read More

The Eight Hats of an Agile Coach

Back in 2012, I worked with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents). Our goal... Read More

How to Play Fearless Journey

Fearless Journey is a game where the goal is for the players to discover a new transformational reality. The power of... Read More

How to Influence People to Implement Changes

“That is nice a idea to try, but don’t expect anyone outside your group to do it.” “I would do it, but our company has... Read More

Best Ways to Motivate Team Scrum Members

Stop doing things that demotivate people! Seriously…there are a lot of silly things that people are expected to endure in... Read More

How to Run an Agile Coaching Dojo

An Agile coaching dojo is a safe place to improve three important skills for an Agile Coach – observing, listening and... Read More

C6 Approach to Accelerated Learning

At Applied Frameworks Online Education, our goal is to provide you the essential information (“no fluff”) in condensed... Read More

Yesterday's Weather: Planning with Story Points

Yesterday’s Weather is an Extreme Programming planning technique used to estimate the capacity of a Team based on their... Read More

Facilitator Kit For Agile Coaches

For just a small investment of $13.99, you can have your very own facilitation starter kit! It has post-its! It has... Read More

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