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I attended the Agile Mindset course offered by Gil Broza in April 2016. This two-day hands on training focuses on Mindset and how one can uses the Agile Values and Principles to utilize in his/her daily life. This is how “Leading Toward the Agile Mindset” is described on 3P Vantage: Leading Toward the Agile Mind-Set…
Finding a great Scrum Master is not trivial at all. Anyone can take a course for two days, take the test and become a Certified Scrum Master. However, you are not mastered in anything. Your journey has just begun. Through my experience looking for great Scrum Masters, I came up with the following list of characteristics.…
It was a very unhappy time when I had to run a retrospective for a team that their Scrum Master let go the day before. I had to show up and run the retro. It wasn’t that easy to talk to people about what has happened and brought up the discussion. What I decided to do…
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I attended and successfully completed “DA301 Disciplined Agile Master Class”. The course was offered by Disciplined Agile Consortium in November 2015, instructed by Scott Ambler. Toronto, ON, Canada: DA301 Disciplined Agile Master Class with Scott Ambler DA 301: Disciplined Agile Master Class The topics covered in this course were as follow: DA 301: Disciplined Agile Master Class…
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Several weeks ago I presented an introductory talk on how to scale agile in an organization, with the focus on SAFe and how the framework works. I am sharing the presentation here. I hope this will be a good intro for those interested in SAFe and how it works. This presentation can be found on…
In every team, there have always been one or two people that are tight-lipped. It is not easy to get them talking and participating in team discussions. You need to rely on your facilitation skills to get them involved in. The more experienced you are in understanding different personalities and dealing with them, the easier…
Have you ever tried to make sure that your team is completely aware of what the Scrum Master’s role is about. Are you looking to educate your team members through playing a game on that? You are in the right place, once I played a game with my team to go over Scrum Master duties.…
Are you hearing that? Everyone is going Agile? Do you want to get on-board fast? This is a really quick guide for you to follow and figure it out. Obviously it lacks so many things in it. It might not even touch the basics. However, if you claimed you know Agile and you don’t, this…