The Wheels on the Bus Retrospective
Last week I walked into the office to be told that a members of my team – I shall call him Scott*, because that is his name – had not had a very enjoyable journey into work. Scott gets the bus into work and on this particular morning he had been joined by large number […]
New Year Goals (not resolutions)
2020 is here, and with the arrival of the new year many people will set out with the best of intentions and look to set themselves one or more New Year’s resolutions. Over the last few weeks of 2019 my wife asked me (on more than one occasion) what my New Year’s resolution was going […]
Competing priorities and maximising value
It has been about six months since my last blog post, which is a lot longer between posts than I had hoped when I first started blogging. So what has been happening that has caused this hiatus? The end of 2018 saw a number of family events. It was my daughters birthday, which was swiftly […]
Is ‘Sprinting’ really good for you?
Last year I ran a retrospective with my team with the idea of identifying characteristics, attributes and/or behaviours that would benefit the team if we could display them. I asked the team to think of a person that they would like to have as part of our group, along with the benefits and attributes that […]
Is your daily stand-up FOCUSED?
In my current role, I have been working with a team that have been transitioning from the world of waterfall projects to Agile delivery. This team were the Agile pilot for the department. Their success has resulted in more teams being identified as candidates to begin their own Agile journey, with a view to move […]
Am I Manuel?
In a previous blog post I asked if I was Michael Fish. This started me wondering what other famous sayings or characteristics that are attribute to/aligned with well known people/characters, which I may display as an Agile Coach and/or Scrum Master. Over the last couple of months many of the people around me have been […]
Delivering an Agile Baby
Agile is synonymous with software delivery, although it is being adopted outside of information technology and branching out into other areas. Within the workplace, HR and recruitment are increasingly adopting an Agile approach. The processes followed within these areas of the business can be easily mapped/converted to a Kanban Board. This allows for work in […]
Am I Michael Fish?
As I start to write this blog post, it is approaching the end of February and a colder spell of weather is on the horizon. This is exciting for my daughter as it brings with it the possibility of snow, but I also had to explain to her that sometimes the weather forecast is wrong […]
Jackanory
Following a series of blog posts on metrics, I couldn’t decide which of my other ideas should form the basis my next post. I thought that I would try something different, which turned out to be both a success and failure. I decided that I would create a poll on my Twitter account and get […]
Producing metrics is only a Starting Point
Over the course of my last six blog posts I have considered:- Meaningful Metrics Evolving Metrics Trusted Metrics Repeatable Metrics Imaginative Metrics; and Concise Metrics The production of a metric is never the end of a journey – it is always a Starting Point. As noted in Concise Metrics, there should be value from the […]