Perspectives on Agile vs Waterfall
Having been a trained and qualified project manager for several years before joining ScrumCenter, the world of Agile and Scrum was entirely new to me. I can’t believe this whole …
Product Ownership: It’s a Business Thing!
Is your Product Owner just a development manager with a new title? Are the real decisions about the product made by marketing, or product management as part of marketing so …
The Retrospective Prime Directive
Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the …
Agile Liftoff Workshop at Agile Development Practices Potsdam
Birgit and I held a workshop at Agile Development Practices in Potsdam. Here is our presentation:
Presentation at Droidcon Berlin on Scrum for Startups
The slides from my presentation in the startup track at Droidcon Berlin 2013 are here: Combining Disciplined Execution with Continuous Innovation
Radical Management Workshop in Berlin with Stephen Denning
Making the Entire Organization Agile Learn the Biggest Secret in Management Today I am delighted to announce a very special event in Berlin. On July 9th-11th, Stephen Denning will be …
10 Mistakes that (some) Managers Make
1. Putting Most of their Energy Into Avoiding Getting Blamed The main objective for some managers is to avoid getting blamed for a problem. The result is that they reduce …
Using the Cartoon Story Board Technique in Retrospectives
Cartoon Story Board (also called Comic Story Board) is one of my favourite creativity techniques and it can be used to good effect in retrospectives. I have used it in …
The Anatomy of a Release Retrospective
As Scrum practitioners, we are used to short and sharp retrospectives at the end of each Sprint. Sprint retrospectives, taking 1-2 hours, can yield valuable results, enabling the Scrum team …