Discover how retrospectives can improve sustainability of high-performing teams through continuous improvement cycles (PDCA) I wanted to cover something dear to my heart, the power of reflection, and how using this approach can level up your team’s performance, simply by using continuous improvement to drive the goal of high-performance teams. Although I have written similar things in the past, in this article I wanted…

Leading high performing agile teams is about exceeding expectations consistently.. Here’s how In this article I discuss the characteristics of a high performing team, and how you can adopt some effective strategies to take your team to the next level. How do you know if you have a high performing team? Firstly, focus on doing better than what is expected, simply by exceeding those expectations. …

How safety checks can encourage better outcomes for your Sprint retrospectives This article explores how psychological safety is a must to successfully conduct great Sprint retrospectives. If not followed, it could be a barrier to achieving successful outcomes for you and your team. What a successful Sprint retrospective looks like A successful Sprint retrospective should be an opportunity for the Scrum team to reflect on what went well…

How Scrum values can advance your team’s performance This blog article explores how the Scrum Values can be used to optimise your Scrum team’s performance. First, this blog will uncover what Scrum values are, along with some examples on how they can be applied in your everyday Scrum practices to help take your team to the next level. Scrum Values broken down …

How the strategic levels of Agile planning can provide a clear path to successful outcomes for your team As many of you have read throughout this year, I have been writing about Agile planning — how all the different parts fit together. In my last blog article in this series, I want to sum it all up, and show how the strategic levels of Agile planning can be…

How Agility can help close feedback loops, improve alignment and ultimately get better outcomes for all Hi all, I have been doing a lot of thinking recently about why I am so passionate about Agile. For me, I think it is how these lightweight frameworks (Scrum and Kanban for example) focus on bringing people together to get things done. I believe Agility can help resolve a…

In this article, I discuss how you and your team can use the INVEST criteria — typically used for fine-tuning your user story composition — for mastering your team’s Definition of Ready. First let’s look at some basic concepts. INVEST criteria The INVEST criteria is often used to optimise user story composition…

Tips and tricks to help take your Scrum team to the next level When enhancing a self-organized team, you may think most of the hard work is done right? For instance, the Definition of Done is consistently being met, your team’s velocity is improving, and the quality of the team’s work is great. Your team maybe performing optimally each and every sprint. So…

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…