Using Retrospectives to reflect and adapt — In this blog article, we explore the power of reflection for teams conducting Retrospectives and how they use their findings to improve internal processes. Reflection is a powerful action. …

Becoming agile starts with you This article highlights what having an agile mindset actually means and how having this superpower makes you a better and more empowered collaborator, teammate, and person. What is an agile mindset? It is an attitude that supports the agile working environment through core values, these include: Respect: Working with your team as a collective; united…

How can you do Agile without leadership? There are ways… Often many organisations want to try Scrum or other Agile approaches without the full commitment of dedicated leaders. Although this is far from ideal, it is often the case. In Scrum, it could be having no dedicated scrum master or product owner role. Or, there might not be an Agile…

Techniques to brainstorm product roadmaps with your Scrum team I have recently discussed ideas in a series of blogs about agile planning, product roadmaps and product visions (see Medium links below). In this blog, I discuss some techniques you can use to brainstorm how to create a product roadmap from scratch, by working with your Scrum Team. The Relationship Between Epics, Features, User Stories & Subtasks Exploring the guiding principle of Progressive Elaborationmedium.com

How Agile Teams can use Product Roadmaps to help organise their backlogs In this article, I will walk you through what a Product Roadmap is, describe how the product roadmap and product backlog are uniquely different, but when worked on together, they complement each other, to help deliver value to stakeholders. What is a Product Roadmap? A product roadmap is a single source of truth which maps…

How Themes can drive meaningful outcomes when Agile planning As I have discussed in a previous blog about how Progressive Elaboration can effectively drive a successful requirement breakdown for Agile planning, see the Relationship between Features, Epics, User Stories and Sub-Tasks for more information. The Relationship Between Epics, Features, User Stories & Subtasks Exploring the guiding principle of Progressive Elaborationmedium.com

Exploring the guiding principle of Progressive Elaboration This article explores an agile method called Progressive Elaboration. In Agile, Progressive Elaboration focuses on continuously improving and detailing the agile plan as more details arise. Meaning, the estimates will become more accurate, once more information is known. This is part of the ‘Just in Time planning’ (JIP) principle. What is Progression Elaboration?

How using the Continual Backlog Refinement Method can help optimize your team’s agility This article explores the wonders of Continual Backlog Refinement. A simple method that will help your scrum team focus on what is important — refinement of the backlog, and how it could break the same-old routine that teams can get tired of doing. Continual Refinement Overview As we all know, it is the…