Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
The “tagline” for this blog says “Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Scrum Master / Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan”, so maybe I should expand a little on each of these: Englishman: I was born in Bedfordshire, England; quite often you’ll find a diagram near my desk where I’ve been explaining the difference […]
Spotted on The Daily WTF:
The three teams I’m working with are on 2-week sprints; today and tomorrow marks halfway through their first sprints, so I did a brief mid-sprint review with two of the teams (the third team are doing theirs tomorrow). I introduced each team to the objective, which is for the team to look at the remaining […]
I started a new (short-term) contract on Thursday and I’m very pleasantly surprised to see how keen people are! The company took the decision to “go Agile” only a couple of weeks ago and they’ve jumped in with both feet. They’re committing a lot of time and money to this transition, but even more important […]
It seems that this blog is largely becoming a place where I just re-post Dilbert cartoons, but that’s not my aim … however, Scott Adams is just so spot on sometimes! I’ve been in the situation (as I’m sure most PMs have) where the team says there’s just not enough time to get everything done, […]
As you probably know, I’m looking for a new gig as a Scrum Master (excuse me while I plug my resume) and one of the challenges I’m finding is assessing the “Scruminess” of a company/project. Fortunately I’ve found two handy tools: “The Scrum But… Test” and “10 Questions for Your Scrum Master Interview“. The first […]
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