The Reality Check – Remote Retrospectives
Last week I was privileged to co-host a round table discussion with Jonathan Howell on remote retrospectives as part of his ‘Reality Check’ series of discussion events, hosted by Emma Alston of Transition Partners. ‘Reality Check’ round table discussions focus on three questions:- What are we trying to achieve? What is happening on the ground? […]
Review: Team Mastery by Geoff Watts
Back in 2013 Geoff Watts published his first book, Scrum Mastery, which looked specifically at the role of the Scrum Master and how, “if organisations can create and support great ScrumMasters then those ScrumMasters will foster great teams and create environments that enable these teams to create great products.” Scrum Mastery, page 17 In Scrum […]
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 […]
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 […]
Review: That Crazy Agile Thing
On Tuesday 25th April I attended ‘That Crazy Agile Thing‘ – a one day Agile conference I Leeds run by the organisers of Agile in Leeds and Agile Yorkshire, and hosted by Infinity Works. When booking my ticket I had no idea what the conference would offer as the agenda was still to be announced. […]
Agile Delivery Playlist
On a recent journey home from work a song came on the radio that I had not heard for a while, Waterfalls by TLC. The title of the song got me thinking – would it be possible to put together an Agile Delivery Playlist that would take me from a Waterfall to an Agile delivery […]
The non-agility of the PDR process
One thing every Agile methodology has in common is the concept feedback loops, and ideally, fast feedback. These feedback loops can be internal or external and can take place at varying intervals. Feedback can be received from customers through UAT (user acceptance testing) or following the release of a product increment. Alternatively, feedback can be […]
My Agile Journey
I have not taken a typical route into IT and software development, although, as I look back at the roles I have undertaken I am able to see some similarities and reuse of skills. After graduating from university with a degree in Criminology and Social Policy, I spent seven years as a civilian in the […]