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Powerful Questions (and an extra coaching tool)

As an agile coach I often write this blog about, well, agile topics. Today I want to focus on the other side of that title, and talk a bit about…

The Product Goal of Margaret Thatcher

This is the third and final part of my series about Product Ownership concepts inspired by Netflix's "The Crown." To start from part one, check out The technical Debt of…

Princess Di and the KVAs

This is the second part of my series about Product Ownership concepts inspired by Netflix's "The Crown". For part one, check out The technical Debt of Elizabeth Regina, Product Owner.…

The Technical Debt of Elizabeth Regina, Product Owner

Lately, my wife and I have been bingeing Netflix’s “The Crown,” and it’s made me start to see some connections between the British monarchy and Agile-- even though the British…

Should a Product Owner Participate in the Daily Scrum?

I read a post by Carl Adamson today titled "Can I invite the Product Owner to the Daily Scrum." In the post, Carl points out that while in the past,…

Practice Makes Better

I want you to imagine it's December 2019. You are part of a Scrum Team. Not just any scrum team, but a great one. Super-high performing, on target in everything,…

The Invisible Power of a Neutral Facilitator

This post is inspired by an exchange I had with my fellow facilitator Niamh McNally recently. I met Miamh in a facilitation course we both attended, and we started talking…

What is an Accountable Scrum Master

I've written several blog posts about the role of a Scrum Master. Most recently, I wrote about why we shouldn't refer to Scrum Masters as leaders. But the new revision…

We shouldn’t call Scrum Masters “Servant Leaders”

The new Scrum Guide came out on November 18th 2020. This first major revision in three years softens the language of many ideas in the guide, making it less prescriptive…

When your remote team is too distributed for scrum

I worked on a scrum team once that had most of its members co-located in two offices in Israel, with one guy, Peter, in an office in California, a 10…