Psychological Safety: The Key to Team Success
What is Psychological Safety? Psychological safety is the belief that you will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. It is about creating…
What is Psychological Safety? Psychological safety is the belief that you will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. It is about creating…
In the Winter of 2016 - 2017, I changed jobs. I had been working as an Agile Coach at a 60-person technology start up here in Toronto, Canada and after…
In my previous blog Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?, I introduced the Star Model. In this post, I build on that to show aligned and unaligned organization design. Developing…
Who is responsible for making and maintaining the Sprint Backlog? Who creates the Sprint Goal? Is it necessary to have a Sprint Goal in every Sprint, and is it…
In this article I share the case of mitosis – splitting a large team of 19 people into two independent feature teams working from a single Product Backlog. After the…
Because Scrum doesn’t promote a rigid set of steps or practices, it’s well-suited to developing products in complex, unpredictable environments. Teams are free to self-manage and find ways to work…
*In this article references to "workitems" shall be construed as "product backlog items". What is throughput? The number of product backlog items that the Kanban system members deliver to the…