Scrum people are awesome
I usually write about professional agile topics. Today, I want to say something a little different: Scrum people are awesome. Recently I took and passed the Professional Scrum Master II…
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The recent US Senate hearings on content moderation had to be briefly put on hold, with senators and the media all waiting impatiently. The reason? Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook,…
Continue ReadingTwo ways to build trust in a remote agile setting (and why it’s really important)
A couple of years ago my family and I fulfilled a long time dream and moved to a little village in the Czech Republic. Since I’ve always done at least…
Continue ReadingMy Sole Intention Was Learning To Fly… (But Why?)
If you’ve even been to a scrum course or company training, you have probably heard of something called a “user story.” User stories are a way to present a functional…
Continue ReadingBuild A Horse
One of my favorite all time sayings goes like this: "A camel is a horse designed by a committee" This is by not by any way of denigrating camels, of…
Continue ReadingWhy Asking Your Star Developer to be Scrum Master Gets Messi
As of writing of this post, Lionel Messi is considered one of the best football (soccer) players in the world, having scored 635 goals and 256 assists in 735 games…
Continue Reading“Agile is Fake News”
When I told a former colleague that I had received my Professional Scrum Master certification, he laughed. Agile is fake news, he said. It’s all theater. You work in teams,…
Continue ReadingDevelopment in the time of Corona
In his book "Love in the Time of Cholera" Gabriel García Márquez describes a love triangle taking place in a Latin American country in the turn of the 20th century,…
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