Team dysfunctions – Part II – Avoidable problems
While covering dysfunctions in team development, I realized that this subject is worth a second post. In case you missed the first part, please read
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I guess … The risks of guesswork in projects
Have you ever started a project sure that it would never work out, but the boss gave the order, and “The boss is always right.”,
What is MVP (and what isn’t)?
After Eric Ries published his book The Lean Startup in 2011, the term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) became popular. Numerous companies started to adopt it
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According to its creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, Scrum is a framework within which people can deal with and solve complex problems while building
Dysfunctions of a development team – Part 1
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Imagine a person living a sedentary life, with an unhealthy diet, fighting mirror & wardrobe for some time. They’ve decided to turn their life around
Product Backlog: Epic, User Story, and Tasks
You’ve probably heard the terms Epic, Story, and Tasks, right? There’s plenty of confusion about these terms around, so we figured it would be best
User story: avoiding dysfunctions
You can write the items of your backlog in several ways. One of the most popular is the User Story format. User Story To summarise,
Falling from Mount Olympus: The difficult lessons I’ve learned on the way to agility
At the Agile Brazil event in 2017, I presented a session called Falling from Mount Olympus: The difficult lessons I learned as I tried to
Advanced ScrumMaster: The next step in your career!
Knowledge21 is starting to offer Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), which comes with the Scrum Alliance’s international certification. But what’s the difference between the two training?
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In the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams in 1985, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings build a supercomputer called Deep Thought, the
Dysfunctions in the Scrum Master’s Role
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Software quality guarantee with TDD (Test Driven Development)
One of the big challenges which software development teams face is quality guarantee. In projects which used the traditional Waterfall method, there was a well
Want to increase your company’s productivity? Give time off!
Working at K21 has one great advantage. We DON’T have 30 days vacation. In fact, if I want to take a vacation or a few
Silos: visualizing and dealing with the team’s dependencies
Recently, while we were facilitating an EVDnC, one of the teams was having difficulty deciding what tasks should be done by whom, and which of
Good feedback
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In the article Metrics – How to measure your team’s agility we talked about why and how to measure a team using the four Domains
Fixed Scope: The Illusion
When was the last time your project finished within the timeline and cost? Did the Team do much overtime? Did it meet the entire scope
Root Cause: a powerful retrospective solving team problems
Are we looking for root causes? Imagine that one day you wake up feeling unwell, your body feels hot. The thermometer shows 102F. In other
Electrical Circuit Retrospective
Let’s improve our work! How can we do that? Do an Electrical Circuit retrospective helps to brainstorm improvements. Preparation To begin with, draw an electrical
Metrics: a powerful way of measure Agility within organizations and teams
A team that seeks constant improvement needs to rely on concrete data, and not only on the results. While using metrics for their benefits, without
