Agile Scrum
Struggling with missed deadlines, messy processes, or poor visibility? Learn how to tell if your company needs a PMO, what it should do, and how to build one that actually works.
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Is there a scrum team and who is it? Good question — let’s strip the fluff and nail it down: When someone says “when the Scrum Team picks up the ticket”, who are they referring to? The entire cross-functional delivery team includes: BUT — the developers specifically pull work into progress (coding, testing, designing, etc). […]
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Whether it’s project management, policies, leadership or toxic teammates, here’s how team dynamics really get wrecked—and what it costs companies.
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Let’s get ahead of it: 3-week sprints are “allowed” and not inherently wrong, but they just don’t make sense. This should be obvious. They’re a red flag when you see them. A typical agile scrum team doesn’t use 3 week sprints. If you’re running Agile Scrum and you’re using 3-week sprints, your team might already […]
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I really don’t care about certifications, titles and acronyms very much. I’ve always felt more often than not Honestly, I don’t feel any different about these. I know potential employers look at them and that’s the ony reason I finally got them. I didn’t read any of the material. I didn’t study. I just took […]
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I’m remote first. And, I was before the pandemic. I work with on a Macbook with two Asus Zenscreens and my hotspot so I’m ready to be productive anytime, anywhere. My entire office fits in my backpack along with a mobile content studio consisting of mics, mobile cameras, tripods, and lights ready to record or […]
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If you look up the basics of Agile Scrum you’ll get something like the 3 pillars of “transparency, inspection and adaption”. Even more useful, the 5 core values are commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage. The six principles of Empirical Process Control, Self-Organization, Time-Boxing, Value-Based Prioritization, Iterative Development, and Collaboration. Courage? What? Got it? Are […]
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I see it all the time. More often than not, companies mirror their physical organization in their project management process. They’ll have stand-ups within a functional team, have individual meetings that cause information silos, improperly attribute work requests and more. However, this organization is missing the essence of Agile-Scrum: cross-functional teams. But if a company’s […]
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