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.

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

Get the Data to Remove the Really Hard Impediments

I was looking through some old notes and found this question from a LinkedIn group. “Has anyone experienced where... Read More

Purpose of a Sprint Backlog

I came across this question\comment on the LinkedIn ScrumMasters group the other day asking about Burndown Charts and... Read More

Scale Scrum and Agile with LeSS Framework

As it turns out, there is a way to do Scrum at scale and it’s name is LeSS – referring to the idea that less is the key to... Read More

Onshore ScrumMaster Offshore Team Does NOT Work

A recent question in the Certified Scrum ProfessionalsLinkedIn Group, described a common scenario that people have when... Read More

Why Is Commitment Important to Scrum

Commitment is essential to Scrum since it lies at the fundamental core of Scrum – personal accountability, the drive for... Read More

How to Improve Your User Stories

Why does writing user stories have to suck so much? I recently heard from a colleague that they were looking for some... Read More

[DELETE] User Story

I have written on user stories before, so please understand that I love user stories. When used thoughtfully, I feel user... Read More

Scrum Teams versus Working Groups

In the past few weeks, I have been putting renewed effort to wrap up the course design for a new course entirely focused on... Read More

Scrum Teams Working from Home

Today, I read that new CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, has decided to curtail the number of employees who work remotely... Read More

The Many Hats of a ScrumMaster

I have been working with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents) and we were... Read More

The Perfection Game by Jim McCarthy

I recently came across an awesome and challenging book – Software for Your Head by Jim McCarthy. There are so many... Read More

The 4Cs: Connection, Content, Concrete Practice & Conclusion

Right before Agile 2011, I had the opportunity to co-train a CSM course with an awesome candidate to join the ranks of... Read More

Writing Good User Stories

User stories are tool that originated from Extreme Programming and have become the de facto way Agile teams document and... Read More

Bill of Rights for the Scrum Roles

One of the things I admired about Extreme Programming (XP) was the simplicity of the roles defined in the Green Book. In XP,... Read More

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