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Online Scrum Training - The Inspiration for our Programs

Our Online Training programs will help protect your career from costly mistakes. I wish I had something like our programs... Read More

Process

What A CEO Truly Thinks About Agile - Piyush Gupta's Perspective

What A CEO Truly Thinks About Agile – Piyush Gupta’s Perspective I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural internal... Read More

Process

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

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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

Process

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

Product

Product Launch Checklist

We’re currently supporting a startup client who plans to launch the first GA version of their product in 60 days. While... Read More

Product

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

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Growth Path for Product Managers

In the last two Certified Scrum Product Owner courses that I taught, people have asked, “What’s next?” A beautiful question... Read More

Process

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

Process

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

Process

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

Process

What We Believe About Agile

Happy New Year! We hope that 2015 started great for you. To kick off what we expect to be more frequent blogging, this post... Read More

Process

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

Process

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

Process

Fix Your Broken Daily Scrum

Why Tools Drive Daily Scrums into the Mud I have observed a disturbing pattern in many Daily Scrums driven by an intense... Read More