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The 6 Preferred (and Misunderstood) Stances of a Product Owner
In many organizations, the Product Owner role is misunderstood—and it shows. Teams get stuck, stakeholders…
From Epic to Task: A Practical Guide to Decomposition in Scrum
One of the most valuable skills a Scrum Team can develop is the ability to…
Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management – Skills (Scrum.org) – SELF PACED COURSE
Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches: Get the best of both worlds…
Impact Agility BookCast: Leading With Impact: Chapters1-3
My two AI friends have read the first 3 chapters from the beta version of…
Change Management: Navigating the Inevitability of Change
Change is a constant presence—at work, in our personal lives, and across the world around…
Are you starting the clock too late with Scrum? With Louis-Phililppe Carignan
Flow Metrics are a common and powerful way for Scrum and Kanban teams to measure…
Balancing Effectiveness, Efficiency and Predictability in Kanban with Jim Sparks
The Kanban Guide (https://kanbanguides.org) tells us that we need to find the right balance of…
Flow Metrics for Startups with Adam Bullied
Matt welcomes his first-ever guest to the podcast! Adam Bullied, COO at Circus, joins to…
New Class intro: Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management – Skills (Scrum.org)
Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches: Join us for a 1-day Professional…
How to: Use Impact Mapping to build a better Agile organization
Impact Mapping is typically used to build products, but it can be just as effective…
Agile Giants: Mike Cohn @MountainGoatSoftware #scrum #agile #scrummaster
In the Agile world, we are all truly standing on the shoulders of Giants. Here's…
Agile Giants: Esther Derby @EstherDerbyIsHere #scrum #agile #scrummaster
In the Agile world, we are all truly standing on the shoulders of Giants. Here's…
Agile Giants: Introduction #scrum #agile #scrummaster
In the Agile world, we are all truly standing on the shoulders of Giants. Here's…
How to: Install Actionable Agile & Load Data from Jira
➕ Installing Actionable Agile as a Plugin on your Jira Cloud instance ? Importing your…
?When they ask you “When will the project be done” and you pull out the Story Point Burn Up Chart.
?When they ask you "When will the project be done" and you pull out the…
Everything’s Made Up, and Story Points Don’t Matter!!
Everyone knows that Story Points are just made up numbers that don't really mean a…
How to use Actionable Agile to track Flow Metrics: A deep dive
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Managers… as Scrum Masters. Scrum Managers??
The thing about empiricism is that sometimes you are wrong. And that's OK. It's the…
Did Jira actually get something right?! Flow Metrics?! #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster #scrum
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IT Admins: Let the teams control their Jira workflows! #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster #scrum
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Get Flow Metrics from JIRA Actionable Agile in 1 Minute #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster #scrum
It would take way more than one minute to cover all the insanely cool features…
Using Jira’s “Days In Column” feature like a PRO #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster #scrum
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What’s the best way to organize your swim lanes in Jira? #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster #scrum
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DO NOT forget to do this when setting up your workflow in Jira! #scrum #atlassian #jira #scrummaster
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Using Jira for Professional Scrum: My Top 5 Tips
The reality is that most developers and agile practitioners do not get much say in…
Imitation is not flattering: B2B Startups Must Forge Their Own Organizational Structures
Scrum hasn’t much to say about organizational design. And rightfully so – if there is…
My Grumpiest Take on Scrum
I was lucky enough to meet Ken Schwaber on my journey to becoming a Professional…
Scrum For Startups: Finding the Sweet Spot
In the Winter of 2016 – 2017, I changed jobs. I had been working as…
Get Better at Planning (Without Trying to get Better at Planning)
I was triggered by a recent conversation. If you are an Agile Coach / Scrum…
Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum – Part 5 of 5
In this 5th and final post in the series, we will cover questions 10-12 of…
Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum – Part 4 of 5
In this post we will cover questions 7-9 of the Gallup Q12 Engagement survey, and…
Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum – Part 3 of 5
In this post we will cover questions 4-6 of the Gallup Q12 Engagement Survey, and how…
Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum – Part 2 of 5
Improving Employee Engagement with Professional Scrum (Questions 1-3 of Gallup’s Q12 Survey) In Part 1 of this…
Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum – Part 1 of 5
Between Agility and Better Business Outcomes is Employee Engagement Editors Note: this was initially published…
Virtual Retrospectives – Tips & Tricks
Esther Derby (who literally co-wrote the book on Agile Retrospectives) had some sage advice at…
Virtual Lean Coffee – Professional Scrum, Agile & New Remote Ways of Working
On April 17, 2020, past students from our Professional Scrum Master classes came together to…
Arrogance, and getting to Done…
“Matt, that is the most arrogant thing I’ve ever heard,” said the Executive leader. And…
So, the boss says you’re a Scrum Master now…
Here is a common scenario playing out in enterprises around the world today: Executive: “We’re…
Quality without QA – Keeping the bar high
In 2016, I had the pleasure of coaching at a leading event tech company, EventMobi. Their event…
Managing Agile — How an agile transformation can be the key to becoming a great manager
Update: November 24, 2016 – I gave a talk based largely on this blog at the…
Why You Need an Aspirational Definition of Done
Note: This article was initially published by the Scrum Alliance, here. Every Scrum team worth…
It’s Good To Not Be A Hero – Bringing Joy to QA with Agile
My Agile journey has so far included stops along the way in Project Management, People Management…
Choose Your Own Work Flow
Note: This was originally published on the Scrum Alliance website, here: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/september/choose-your-own-workflow High-performing Scrum teams run…
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