Practical Agilist

During 2022, I published 18 blog posts. I continue to blog about topics I run into in my job as an Agile Coach. I write not just because I…

If you’ve ever said “this is the best team ever” I can guarantee you the reason is because of the people you worked with on the team. You…

Sometimes I think it’s both interesting and surprising that we talk about ice breakers so much. They’re such a small thing about what we…

Most people know that for agile to work best, there has to be effort spent on continuous improvement, collaboration between team members…

As many teams learn the Agile Mindset, they struggle having too many large stories. Some linger on the board and spill over from one sprint…

Many teams that are just getting started think about using story points as a replacement for putting hours on tasks in their old project…

You may have noticed there is a lot of talk about OKRs lately. When you first learn about them, they may seem foreign and yet another…

What makes a great product roadmap and what do you do with it?

I might call it The Velocity Trap. It’s not that your velocity is too high or too low. That’s not what’s killing your transformation. It’s…

A few years ago, when my agile coaching teammate George and I had just started working with our current agile transformation, we had this…

I was talking to good friends last night over beers about how often agile is used incorrectly as a tool to help a company achieve their…

The word mindset is elusive. Maybe you’ve heard people say “agile is a mindset” or “you need to understand the agile mindset to BE agile”…

So, I don’t care what role you’re in, but if you’re on an agile team or working with one, there’s one thing you can work on that will…

There’s no role describing a manager and their responsibilities in the Scrum Guide. And yet, everyone still reports to someone. If you’re…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the role of a manager desperately needs to change in order for an organization to embrace…

There are a lot of opinions about scaling agile out there. And I get it. This stuff is not easy. I tend to lean more toward a practical…

You’ve probably heard of an “MVP” before, a minimally viable product. The problem, which you are probably also aware, is that that this is…

In this post, I provide some references that explain the benefits of pair programming. Read them to help your team decide whether it’s…

First of all, there’s a fantastic book by Emily Webber that goes into important detail while still being a short read: Building Successful…