How I take notes as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach
I’ve been using this for over 4 years! This is Remarkable 2 – my paper tablet that I use to take all of my notes. When I’m attending meetings. When I’m brainstorming by myself. When I take notes while reading a book. I use it to sign documents. To fill in applications. To sketch. To […]
How to resolve team conflict in the workplace [with EXAMPLES]
Imagine. You are in a meeting with your team. The discussion is going ok-ish, but you feel the tension rising. Then you start to only hear two people talking back-and-forth to each other in frustration. The rest of the team is silent. There is a big disagreement in the room that is slowly creeping into […]
3 Key Topics to Discuss with a New Team
Create a social contract with your team by setting expectations around your role with these 3 steps.
Self-Organization and the role of a Scrum Master
After many discussions with students and other Agile practitioners, I came to the realization that the concept of self-organization in Scrum is widely misunderstood. And the whole point of Agile and Scrum is to create self-organizing teams that can solve complex problems on their own. How can we build the right culture if the essential […]
Running self-assessments for your team: NEW guide
There are always opportunities for improvement for any team! Especially, if you encourage agility and empiricism. In my latest video, I’d like to talk about why it’s important and how you can do it. I’ve already talked about Scrum specific assessments before in my previous articles, but I’d like to expand this topic to general […]
Failure IS Acceptable
One of the topics we discuss during the Professional Scrum Master II class is the Scrum-friendly culture – what makes Scrum successful in an organization. And the key element that comes up is experimentation. This is the whole point of empiricism, the whole point of inspection and adaptation. Of course, the discussion about experimentation cannot […]
Not Everything is An Impediment
Scrum Master helps remove impediments. Scrum Master is also accountable for team’s self-management. So how do these two contradictions work together? Well, the truth is: not everything that seems to be an impediment is actually an impediment. I have already discussed the topic of self-organization (self-management) before through the lense of a Scrum Master’s role. […]
The “always busy” syndrome
Last month I shared a short post where I urged Scrum Masters to not fill in their calendars with meetings just because it look empty. In this post, I’d like to talk about that weird way of tracking how hard someone is working and how it is killing your success as a Scrum Master. No […]
Scrum Master, stop talking!
Being a servant leader is hard because you really want your teams to succeed but you can’t just tell them what to do. To compensate for this, we as Scrum Masters often tend to offer plenty of solutions to our teams when we see them struggling. Unfortunately, while it might seem like the best approach […]