What impact does vacation time have on the continuity of the Development Team? What happens when your Scrum Master decides he/she wants to take a few days off?

The Sprint Retrospective, or “Retro,” is a Scrum Event that occurs at the end of every Sprint. During this Event, the Scrum team talks about the previous sprint – what went well and what can be improved – and then adapts their team processes, based on what is uncovered in that discussion. It is this consistent cycle of inspection and adaptation that creates a high-performing team. Unfortunately, this is the one Scrum Event that many teams (or worse, leadership) want to skip. However, I am begging you: Please. Do. Not. Skip. The. Retro. Seriously. Don’t do it!

What is an Agile organization exactly? What are some common characteristics of Agile organizations and how can your company develop those characteristics?

As agile coaches, if we don’t focus on making relationship management an integral part of our teachings, we are doing our team a major disservice.

One of the hardest things for the Scrum Master to do is to get team members to show up and participate in meetings. One way to combat this is to provide incentives to your Scrum team.

In a previous blog, we discussed 4 strategic alignment and funding antipatterns. Here, we focus on the remaining 8 operational antipatterns.

Here are twelve common antipatterns associated with lean/agile portfolio management that can help make our agile technology companies better suited to perform in the age of digital disruption.

Scrum Masters need to be willing to engage with an open mind while remaining focused on what they want to accomplish. Here are five tips that you can use to better position yourself to succeed as a new Scrum Master.

What exactly is the MVP and what is the best path to reach this state?  It is vital to define your MVP as early in the process as possible, but constantly refining it will be pivotal.  Let us dig a bit deeper into exactly what the MVP is all about, how to attain it, and also how to sell it once complete.

Benefits of Scrum will include but are not limited to: Better Product Quality, Faster ROI, More Control, Reduced Risk, and Improved Customer Satisfaction. We dive into the details of each benefit.

Scrum Coaches are typically brought into an organization as consultants. A Scrum Coach focuses on the whole organization or a specific division of an organization. They work with and impact multiple teams. They organize teams to allow for effective Agile development across teams.

While some project management professionals may believe that they can easily retool or rebrand themselves from Project Manager to Scrum Master, the truth is that both disciplines seem to take almost diametrically opposed approaches to software development.