Many years ago, my very first attempt at being a Scrum Master, I was working with a team that had a mix of team members here in Toronto, one person in Montreal, and some people in Mumbai and Pune India. Due to many restrictions with that company, a lot of the advantages of [...]
Last week, I posted this image below, on one of the Slack channels that I belong to. The response I got was actually quite surprising. Several of the people that are on the channel disagreed with this image. This led to an extensive Slack discussion. The unfortunate part was this was a conversation [...]
I just read Joanna Rothman's blog, "Help Managers Visualize Their Problems" and boy do I wish I had this available to me when I was a Scrum Master! Managers in enterprise organizations have worked very hard to get to where they are. Unfortunately for many, they reached their level with old and out of date [...]
Got this in an email marketing blast from Adam Weisbart this morning: "When I was just getting my start as a new Scrum Master (“Master” is a weird word to use when someone is just starting something, isn’t it?), I had a HUGE problem. Half my team wasn’t showing up for their daily [...]
I look back to my almost 20 years of working since I graduated university, I think about some of the great things that lead me to where I am now. Two things stand out: the first, graduating from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Education. The second; walking into my very first Agile [...]
This morning I read this article: How to mess up your agile transformation in seven easy (mis)steps When reading this, I got to thinking about how transformations are working with in organizations that I am working for. Here are my thoughts on what Christopher Handscomb, Allan Jaenicke, Khushpreet Kaur, Belkis Vasquez-McCall, and Ahmad Zaidi [...]
On March 26th and 27th, I had the pleasure to be one of the presenters along with Gino Marckx and Susan Lin at the very first Regional Scrum Gathering at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Toronto. All I can say is wow what an honour to be rubbing shoulders with some of the Scrum and Agile elites [...]
This morning, just after I arrived to work, checking my emails, I came across the blog post Reverse Retrospective - Aligning Scrum Team and Scrum Master by Stefan Wolpers. This made me think of some of the teams that I have worked with in the past or even some of the teams that I'm working [...]
Yesterday many people received an email from Adam Weisbart, the person who created Build Your Own Scrum training sessions. In the email, there was a link to his new flow chart tool, "Are We Ready to do Scrum?" As shown below his flow chart, this tool provides an interesting and simple view of [...]
Journey to be Cross-Functional I recently observed a team that has made an effort to become more cross-functional. One of the team members during their Sprint decided to take on a story that focused heavily on C# programming language and their expertise was with another language. I have to say a big Kudos [...]
