Building an effective ecosystem for women to excel
Globally women in IT are a minority and there is a focus to improve gender diversity at workplace. IT departments practicing agile are no exception to this. So, does agile […]
Stop Spinning your Team’s Wheels, It’s time to revisit your working agreements!
Are your Agile teams disengaged and failing to meet their commitments? Are you spending too much time in endless meetings? Has collaboration eroded between remote team members? Then STOP spinning […]
How Do We Know if a Scrum Master is “Good Enough” for our Teams?
In my current role at Express Scripts, I serve as one of the people leaders for our 100 scrum masters. Since I began this role, the biggest challenge in my […]
Speed-bumps and Potholes on the Road from Projects to Products
Transitioning from projects to products made perfect sense for my client. Much of the business was digital and their websites / online-services would not be “completing” or going away soon. […]
The Sun Never Sets on the Problem Solving Workshop
A fundamental agile principle is the team reflects at regular intervals how to become more effective. The SAFe Inspect and Adapt Problem Solving workshop is a wonderful opportunity for everyone […]
Enterprise Service Planning at Optimizely
Learn how one startup moved from chaos to scrum and beyond by implementing Enterprise Service Planning (ESP) and the seven cadences and visualizing it on an evolving fifty foot wall […]
Retrospectives: 548 Days To Fix 1 Line of Code
We kept having retrospectives, but nothing changed. A year-and-a-half of retrospectives gone by. Each one about the same problem that never gets fixed. Dates are missed, morale is low, and […]
A Practical Look Into Self-Selecting, Distributed Teams
Your company acquires a team based in another country. A switch in company strategy requires the formation of new teams. A project is cancelled and team members suddenly need to […]
Small Scale Scrum
This presentation was based on the written report authored by Leigh Griffith and Agnieszka Gancarczyk, Small Scale Scrum. Agnieszka spent a year researching Small Scale Scrum for her final thesis and […]
Undercover Scrum Master
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD […]
Sharing techniques to continuously improve the XP Laboratory
Since Agile Methods formalization, the software engineering education has also been impacted with universities adapting their courses as a way to suit this new software processes. At the University of […]
Transforming Healthcare with Business Agility
The cost of healthcare administration is crushing Americans. According to [National Institute of Health](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53942/), it was projected to be $315 billion in 2018. This is we (a major healthcare payer) […]
