Well Formed Teams
Signs That Your Team Needs The Well-Formed Team™
Our Scrum experts have been busy putting the finishing touches on our latest white paper, The Well-Formed Team. While they dot their I’s and cross their T’s, here’s a short quiz to determine if your Team might benefit from reading our new white paper. Circle True or False: My Team always has the right people…
Read MoreScrum Speak: Cross-Functional and Self-Organized Teams
According to the Rules of Scrum, Scrum Teams are cross-functional and self-organized. Having a firm grasp on what these two terms mean, and what they look like within the realities of Modern Scrum, is key to a successful Scrum Team.
Read MoreBreak the Habit
Communication and learning are highly intertwined and as Scrum believers, we are compelled to do both at a high level. We need to shape questions to drive the learning and to forge a path for the product development. How can we ever gain robust, vital feedback without engagement of our audience?
Read MorePathways to Scrum Team Mastery
If you could have four great tools in your pocket to nurture your Scrum team to their highest output, what would you need? You would need to see the product, the challenge, and the way to solve it from the point of view of each team member. Let’s talk about the four perspectives.
Read MoreOne Scrum Team. Four Languages.
Some of these languages are pleasant and palatable to us. Others repel us like vinegar. Our challenge as Product Owners, ScrumMasters and teammates is to peel the words and find value in the thought. Let’s revisit the statements and reveal what the intent truly is.
Read MoreScrum Meetings: Painful or Successful?
Scrum meetings are a frequent and essential occurrence as we move through the Scrum framework. As a team member, a Product Owner, or a ScrumMaster, we have an obligation to facilitate meetings that are engaging. How to accomplish that?? It requires awareness and practice.
Read MoreI don’t like my teammates…
You don’t have to like your teammates. You don’t have to go to happy hour with your teammates or the office birthday parties with them. BUT this is what you do need.
Read MoreThe Scrum Wheel and the Learning Wheel United
Scrum teams spin the wheel daily. Every product, story, and task begs for the Scrum wheel to be in motion. Another wheel is spinning every time the Scrum team gathers. Whether it be for a daily stand-up, a product demo or a sprint retrospective, the learning wheel is also present. Learning wheels churn through ideas and…
Read MoreWhen Your Strength is Your Weakness
What is your strength? Is is creating ideas? Is it researching the latest and greatest data for a project?
Read MoreLearning can be Agile
Learning strengths and weaknesses are hard-wired, but, through awareness, we can grow our abilities as a team to chew through the learning curve.
Read MoreTeams: Meet Shannon.
“That’s great, but what if we try…?” Is that your teammate’s favorite sentence? I could guess that ‘risk taker’,’ people lover’, and ‘enthusiastic’ also describe Shannon. Without a doubt, Shannon is the biggest cheerleader on your team, but some team members may see her having a lack of focus…jumping from one project to another without…
Read MoreTeams: Meet Keith.
I once chaired a small leadership team, just four people. Keith, my operations lead, was highly tuned into telling us how our ideas could or could not be implemented. Keith had a million ways to process, but he appeared to have a lack of caring about the people we were serving. Keith was bottom-line results…
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