A typical day for a scrum master depends on the sprint length or cadence: one week or two week sprints. Three weeks and four week sprints are usually very junior teams and highlights issues related to content (only tech) or multitasking in various other projects. A typical day starts like…

In the Scrum foundation training, we know that Scrum master’s relationships are like this: Scrum Master works with Product Owner to ensure that (s)he fulfils her/his job. Scrum master coaches the Product Owner and gives him his support against external aggressions. It means that if the PO is your supervisor…

Tricky questions, an agile team should focus on two metrics only: time-to-market and return-of-investment. Indeed you can add a lot of other one like: velocity: which is not helpful because it assumes that the team is fully dedicated, nobody leaves the team, and each time you have a new comer…

There is always conflicting interests, the strategy to apply is to figure out commonalities or why we are here. There is a trap you shouldn’t fall into and that’s the attention to details. As a human being we love to advocate for our ideas, and in the daily rush sometimes…

Divya is a LinkedIn connection of mine. She asked a couple of questions regarding the scrum master role. Having a lot of question from communities, I decided to share my thoughts, insights to help those who are to shy to ask. My apologies goes to my company for sharing my…

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Words stolen from D. Snowden’s talks and explained in an agile context by practitioner. DISASTER STARTS WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO TRICK THE SYSTEM INSTEAD OF CHANGING THE SYSTEM: Change is a grieving process; you have to remove the old and add the new. Hybrid is the absence of change; it…

Twenty-one years since the Agile Manifesto, and what happened? From my perspective, the agile world unleashed a considerable amount of creativity. Every month, I feel that a new methodology or tool emerges, even if most of them are purely rebranding old ideas. 1994, in their book “Agile Competitors and Virtual…

Who is the customer is one of my favorite questions while starting any assignment, and it is a straightforward question and, curiously, one of the trickiest. The customer is the one who orders work and pays for it, right. In the agile world, we have a mantra on delivering business…