In Part 1 of this post, I shared some of the practices that I use to define my personal development needs and focus. In Part 2, I am sharing some of the ways to address these needs. Step 3. Building my development plan Coming to this step, I know what I am aiming at in 1-3 years from now, and…
It’s the start of the year. For me, this is a time when I look back at what I have achieved over the past year and set my goals looking forward. And just like we would build strategy and roadmaps for our products, I believe it is important to build a strategy and roadmap for ourselves, as a product vision…
This is a game I created for one of our Scrum training. For a one-day training, it is a bit lengthy and resource-consuming. However, it might be a great way to refresh your team’s Scrum knowledge while also creating a team building effect and having a lot of fun (and eventually, good food :)) together. The simulation is essentially a…
One of the fundamental paradigms in Agile is around self-organizing teams. It is a concept that creates both enthusiasm and frustration in leaders and employees, and the reason is that people usually have very different mental images of what a self-organizing team actually is. In this blog post, I want to comment on a few statements that I sometimes hear…
No matter how good a process or methodology is, results are not impressive unless people understand and apply it properly. This is even more true for Agile and it makes the role of the ScrumMaster very important and sometimes quite challenging too. It is definitely not about organizing meetings (oh, yes, I’ve heard that too!) but much more about mentoring and…
In the past weeks, many people who missed my talk at ALE15 asked me to share what it was about, and in my previous post I committed to doing so. Here I am, acting on my commitment 🙂 I named my talk “The adventures of an agile practitioner in the non-agile world” primarily to underline the fact that I was…