A Leader’s Guide to Hiring Team Members
As a leader, hire for culture, capabilities, and diversity. Stop hiring for skills that can be easily taught and focus on the specific skills your team needs.
What’s the RIGHT Way to Use Metrics With a Scrum Team?
In many organizations, nothing wastes more time than metrics with no purpose. Here's help on the RIGHT way to measure team performance.
Has Your Company Chained You to Your Desk?
In my 35 years of coaching, many employees discuss managers who complain when a worker leaves their desk, but monitoring snack time and bathroom breaks won't improve productivity.
Gearing a Team for Maximum Outcomes
Creating a maximum outcome team is every ScrumMaster’s goal, but you must first understand how great teams form and what YOU need to do to create a great team.
VIDEO: Product Ownership for Virtual Teams
In this video, I discuss ways a Product Owner can work more closely and effectively with their teams, stakeholders, and customers during the COVID crisis.
VIDEO: Sprint Operations for Virtual Teams
As COVID-19 stretches teamwork limits, here's some tips for Scrum in a virtual environment, including daily Scrum, backlog refinement, Sprints, and more.
VIDEO: Boosting Work-From-Home Productivity
It's hard to stay productive when working from home, but we've got some tips that will make a real difference in your lives. Share them with your teammates!
VIDEO: Tuning Your Virtual Team for High Performance
In this video, I'll discuss working with your Scrum team when they're remote, including tips to improve communication, collaboration, and performance.
Simplify Your Work by Slicing
When slicing a backlog item, we're taking a complex problem and paring it down into smaller problems, which are easier to solve and build.
Should Scrum Teams be Dedicated to a Single Product?
Should Scrum teams be dedicated to a single product? The truth is, there's times when you want a dedicated team and times when you don't. Let me explain!
Get the Problem Right or You’ll Get the Solution Wrong
Good software solves the customer's problems, but to provide the right solution, you must start with the right problem.
5 Ways to DOUBLE Team Performance
Here's 5 steps you can take as a manager or ScrumMaster to help DOUBLE your Development Team's performance (#5 is a shocker; it's easy but SUPER non-intuitive!)