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.

The Five Levels of Involvement for a Meeting

Ever show up to a meeting expecting your ideas and comments to be taken in consideration only to be cut short by the clock?... Read More

Meetings as Dialogues: The Seven Types of Meetings

Meetings are such a disaster! There are so many things wrong with meetings today from the frequency of meetings to number of... Read More

Meeting vs. Ceremony: Timebox.

A meeting is any conversation that results in a decision in order to get something done. Since the goal of the meeting is... Read More

If You Only Need to Know One Thing as a Product Owner...

… what would it be? There is a really insightful thread on the Certified Product Owner LinkedIn group from last week. I... Read More

What is Teamicide?

You ever wonder if organizations even want teams at all? I hear a lot of people in business talk all about the importance of... Read More

How to Fix Weak Retrospective Action Items

If your Scrum Team regularly cites “Better Communication”, “Improve Quality”, “Less Stress”, “More Teamwork”, etc., etc. as... Read More

Can the Sprint Goal Be Altered? Yes!

The title of this post is somewhat of a contradiction, but I am OK with contradicting myself from time-to-time. On the ... Read More

Six Factors Which Make an Organization Agile

“Are we doing Scrum right?”“Is SAFe the best Agile framework for us?”“Are we Agile [enough] yet?” Common questions from... Read More

Are You In or Out? - Check In & Check Out Protocols

Ever work with a Team and the whole group wants to go in one direction, except for one person who digs in and refuses to... Read More

User Story vs. Use Case

Why Use Cases Are Still Important…with User Stories A while back, I made the claim in one of the Agile LinkedIn groups... Read More

Who is Responsible in Scrum?

To build a quality product we need to let go of the outdated 20th century idea that quality can be achieved through... Read More

Introducing Scrum via Buy a Framework

Today I am going to share with you a engaging , interactive and brief exercise I use to teach Scrum in the first twenty... Read More

Getting Help with Daily Scrum Meeting

Want to make your Daily Scrums a total waste of people’s time? Take a look at the following conversation – which represents... Read More

Best metrics for Scrum Teams

Scheer’s Law – An Observation Regarding Metrics When I worked as an internal Scrum consultant for a San Diego biotech, I... Read More

Main Reasons Why I Avoid Sprint Zero

Avoid Sprint Zero – Try Liftoff I have never been a big fan of the concept of Sprint Zero. Recently, I heard a story from a... Read More

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