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The Perils of Meeting-Driven Culture

Does your organization have a meeting-driven culture? Not sure? Ask yourself how much time you spend in meetings. Are they effective? Search the Internet and you’ll discover that we spend way more time in meetings than we’re comfortable…

Agile Team Building Mechanics

At some point in your work as Agile coaches, you have to organize some kind of team building event. The brief you get is usually a combination of “fun” stuff with some “work” stuff mixed in. This talk share some alternative ideas for…

The Problem with Story Points

For starters, let me just say there’s no problem with story points. Story points are a way of expressing the relative sizes of stories. They can be helpful for short-term planning of software development activities. Unfortunately,…

1. Introduction

The Scrum Body of Knowledge or SBOK is a definitive guide for Scrum and the rules for the game! It is a compilation of the latest methods and best practices employed by its practitioners and experts.

Agile Performance Reviews that Don’t Suck

The end of the year if often the time for performance reviews. Should you still do this practice when you have Scrum Agile teams where the global results should be more valued than the individual peformance? Many in the Agile community…