Posts by Marcelo Lopez
How Using 2 Essential Forms of Feedback Can Maximize Your Sprint Review
Very often, Teams short-change themselves by not recognizing and applying two simple forms of feedback to get the most out of the Sprint Review. Make the outcome of the Sprint Review worthwhile…
Read MoreScrum Needs No Apologists
An apologist is defined as someone offering a defense of something controversial. Since its introduction and emergence as a framework within which a group of individuals can cohere and collaborate as a real Team and empirically apply the opening statement of the Agile Manifesto “we are uncovering better ways… ”; Scrum has attracted both detractors and the aforementioned apologists. I have just one question for the apologists, “Why?”
Read MoreKanban: Deciphering Lead Time And Cycle Time
There’s a misconception out there that metrics will save us. KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) are the magical saviors of projects and Teams (and budgets if you ask certain influencers). That’s not really the case. Metrics inform decision making. The question is, who’s doing the deciding? Often it’s the metric that’s the decider, rather than the…
Read MoreHeroes don’t win games; Well-Formed Teams™ do.
Many people have asked me, “What is a Well-Formed Team, Marcelo?”. Well, there are many examples out there. But now, there should be at least 117 million viewers who’ve supposedly observed one, live and in-action.
Read MoreAgile Project Management – Balancing the two triangles
Every PMP knows about the triple constraints of project management. Those being Cost, Scope and Schedule. Yet, in agile environments where does a PM really “fit”?
Read MoreDon’t Go Through It. Grow Through It.
We’ve all encountered it. We’re present at some Team activity, and we’re there, but we’re not there. We’ve shown up, but that’s about it…
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