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Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility
(This is an excerpt post from Coach Takeshi’s Agile 101 with edits.) One VERY helpful framing we use when we … Read More
Is Agile a Methodology?
(This is an excerpt post from Coach Takeshi’s Agile 101 with edits.) Question: would you agree with me, along with … Read More
How to Build a Kanban Board from Scratch
Your Kanban is a living, breathing artifact. Use it daily and update it frequently. Keep it live and fresh. Why … Read More
Why Design Thinking + Scrum Makes a lot of Sense
Watch on YouTube Learn How To Do Design Thinking + Scrum Transcript In doing so, first, I’d like to take … Read More
Coach Takeshi’s Scrum Crash Course
Learn Scrum the right way! This is a one hour fifty minute condensed version of my otherwise one day Scrum … Read More
Scrum RACI
Our coachees affectionately call it the avocado. We use this to describe the required boundary conditions and effective organizational support … Read More
What do we do when we have missing expertise in the Scrum Team?
On the recurring, practical question of what to do when there are missing skills and expertise in the cross-functional Scrum … Read More
The Cadence of Scrum
I chose this equestrian quote because today I wanted to talk about the time-boxed nature of Scrum, also known as … Read More
Scrum Sprint Pilot
Pilot objective Within the Scrum community, there is abundant writing suggesting that the two main factors of Scrum implementation failure … Read More
The Art of Kanban + User Story Mapping
Kanban is deep… Combine that with Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping (USM), it becomes a powerful visualization tool in Scrum.
Try Design Thinking + Scrum: A Powerful Hybrid Agile Approach
Classic Scrum’s Achilles’ heel One of the weak areas of classic Scrum, in my opinion, is the relative simplicity of … Read More
A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile Scrum
Glossary: Lean, Agile, Scrum, Sprint, Kanban Consider Lean & Agile as pretty much the same thing, they are basically really … Read More
Sprint Till You Drop, and three other tales of Scrum gone wrong
(This post is an excerpt from our earlier article A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile, Scrum.) ‣ The Spiritless … Read More
Spirit of Agile/agility
(This is an excerpt post from Coach Takeshi’s Agile 101) Agile is about relentlessly pursuing customer value. We accept uncertainty … Read More
Start From Here: 5 Recommended Reads For Learning Lean & Agile
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, 2011 Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, 2014 The Startup Owner’s Manual, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, 2012 … Read More