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In Agile world, we experience multiple sessions such as: Daily Stand-ups / Scrums Plannings Groomings Sprint Reviews Demos Retrospectives. Some of these ceremonies might be merged e.g. Sprint Revie…

As any other person, who started new position, I have been fighting with doubts. Doubts about myself, what I could do better. People say: “Do not doubt yourself, just keep going”. But h…

Do you want to use simple tool for tracking your agile team as Scrum Master? Do you like using Jira? Are you Kanban board fan? Are convinced to use Rally? Is Rally too complex and heavy for your need? How to simplify the views so we are able to see progress from higher perspective, easy…

I have Master degree at Computer Modeling. There’s something about this mindset, formed by Math, that terminology and accuracy matters. As an agile servant leader (Scum Master and Release Tra…

Every product has development curve. Here’s simplified stages in agile environment: an ideabrainstorm initial design and functionalityrelease minimum viable productcollect feedbackact on feed…

In previous post, Scrum Master’s developing app fiasco, I shared with you, how I trapped myself in ineffective thoughts flow, which decreased my motivation and performance. One of promises in…

I have been developing simple Java desktop application which suppose to help me to prepare agenda for the meetings and keeping them timeboxed. As a Scrum Master, my job description contains respons…

In these days, agile methodologies become more and more loose at it’s definitions and responsibilities become more vague at practice. Spotify “released” their own agile approach. …

“We want to increase performance of the organization.” Well, that’s nice, yeah, we all do :) Good start, but not enough. Data driven decision making is the phrase which is used of…

People use Scrum loosely. We have Scrum Master, we do standups and we have Sprints. Is that it?! When something does not work, people blame process, that Scrum does not work for us. And they become allergic to Agile buzz word in general. What should Scrum Master or Agile coach do in this situation? Should…

Before I become a dedicated Scrum Master, I was a software developer. I did Java and Android apps. I still like doing development and challenging myself to learn new things. I am aware everyone fro…

24 agile flavors statements which helps you to identify what principles and values you follow

Since you are reading this post, you are already familiar with Manifesto fo Agile Software Development values and principles. Let me refresh it for you. During our Agile journey, we experience diff…

My colleague shared an amazing video with me the other day, the Spotify Engineering Culture. I loved every thought in this video, highly recommend. I would like to share some thoughts from this video which can help us to improve our Agile culture by accepting failure. Trust > Control Trust at Scale requires trust at…

As Scrum Master and big Agile enthusiastic, I started to do some changes to follow Agile principles for my new teams. How it is possible one adapted and became much more Agile with a positive attit…

Lot of us work 8 hours, 5 days a week. Let’s say, there are approximately 220 working days a year (holidays, vacations, doctor’s visits included). With breaks during a day, we mi…